Back تفجير يو إس إس كول Arabic Atentado contra el USS Cole Spanish USS Coleren aurkako atentatua Basque انفجار یواساس کول Persian USS Colen pommi-isku Finnish Attentat contre l'USS Cole French Pengeboman USS Cole ID Attentato allo USS Cole Italian 米艦コール襲撃事件 Japanese USS 콜 사건 Korean
| USS Cole bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen | |
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| Location | Aden, Yemen |
| Coordinates | 12°48′08″N 45°00′19″E / 12.8022°N 45.0054°E |
| Date | 12 October 2000 11:18 am (UTC +03:00) |
| Target | USS Cole |
Attack type | Suicide attack |
| Deaths | 17 (plus two attackers) |
| Injured | 37 |
| Perpetrators | al-Qaeda |
The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack by al-Qaeda against USS Cole, a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, on 12 October 2000, while it was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor.[1]
Seventeen U.S. Navy sailors were killed and thirty-seven injured[2] in the deadliest attack against a United States naval vessel since the USS Stark incident in 1987.
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack. A U.S. judge has held Sudan liable for the attack, while another has released over $13 million in Sudanese frozen assets to the relatives of those killed. The United States Navy has reconsidered its rules of engagement in response to this attack. On 30 October 2020, Sudan and the United States signed a bilateral claims agreement to compensate families of the sailors who died in the bombing.[3] The agreement entered into force in February 2021.[4]
- ^ Ward, Alex (8 November 2018). "Trump's Justice Department is fighting US terrorist attack victims in the Supreme Court". Vox.
- ^ "USS Cole (DDG-67) Determined Warrior". Naval History & Heritage Command. Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ^ "U.S.-Sudan Signing Ceremony on Bilateral Claims Agreement". United States Department of State. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ "Receipt of Funds for Resolution of Certain Claims Against Sudan". United States Department of State. Retrieved 26 July 2021.