Khobar Towers bombing
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khobar-towers-bombing-204-2398042
title:
Khobar Towers bombing
text:
The Khobar Towers bombing was a terrorist attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, near the national oil company headquarters of Dhahran and nearby King Abdulaziz Air Base on 25 June 1996. At that time, Khobar Towers was being used as living quarters for coalition forces who were assigned to Operation Southern Watch, a no-fly zone operation in southern Iraq, as part of the Iraqi no-fly zones. A truck bomb was detonated adjacent to Building #131, an eight-story str
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description:
1996 terrorist attack in Khobar, Saudi Arabia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khobar_Towers_bombing
date created:
2003-10-25T23:03:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T23:15:07Z
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