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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Khobar Towers bombing
		The Khobar Towers bombing was an attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, located near the national oil company (Saudi Aramco) headquarters of Dhahran.
		Suspicious activity was reported in the area of the Khobar Towers compound in the weeks preceding the attack and during May 1996 the U.S. military local area threat condition (THREATCON) was at its highest level, Delta, due to the recent terrorist bombing in Bahrain that killed 3 people.
		In 2004, the 9/11 Commission noted that Osama Bin Laden was seen being congratulated on the day of the Khobar attack, and this raised the possibility that he may have helped the group, possibly by helping to obtain the explosives or the sophisticated timing device used to enable the escape of the perpetrators.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Khobar_Towers_bombing (1095 words)

	Khobar Towers--June 1998
		The idea that Schwalier and his wing staff were not motivated or had somehow failed to make Khobar Towers as secure as possible became the dividing line in Washington's reaction to the tragedy and the source of conflict between the Air Force and Cohen.
		Khobar Towers was home to the bulk of the 4404th and served as its headquarters.
		In the aftermath of the bombing, Cohen would fault the wing commander for tolerating a siren system that he called "plainly inadequate." The fact is that Schwalier inherited the standard "Giant Voice" speaker and siren system that could alert the entire compound.
	www.afa.org /magazine/june1998/0698khobar.asp (5379 words)

	The Report: Personal Accountability for Force Protection at Khobar Towers
		A vulnerability assessment performed at Khobar Towers after the OPM SANG bombing concluded that among the most serious threats to Khobar was a vehicle bomb that either penetrated the compound or was detonated at the perimeter.
		For the much larger bomb that was in fact used by the terrorists, Mylar might have prevented some of the injuries that were caused by flying glass in buildings throughout the Khobar Towers compound.
		A tragedy such as the Khobar Towers bombing necessarily reflects on more than one man. Our commanders in the field must be able to count on support from their chain of command to enhance their ability to succeed in the difficult missions with which they are entrusted.
	www.fas.org /irp/threat/khobar_dod/report.html (5292 words)

	CNN - FBI seeks to question Saudi about Khobar Towers bombing - Mar. 22, 1997
		Hani Abdel Rahim Hussein Al-Sayegh, 28, was arrested Tuesday in Ottawa on suspicion of engaging in terrorism and being a threat to Canadian security, the Toronto Sun reported Saturday, quoting government officials.
		The blast killed 19 servicemen and injured 500 Americans and Saudis at the Khobar Towers military complex.
		Bombing probe looks at possible tie to 1995 terrorist attack - June 28, 1996
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9703/22/fbi.canada.bombing (305 words)

	ABC News: Iran ordered to pay $254 million in Khobar Towers bombing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In issuing the $254.4 million judgment in the case, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded that the Khobar Towers attack was carried out by people recruited by Gen. Ahmed Sharifi of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
		The truck bomb involved in the attack was assembled at a base in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley operated by Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Guards, and the attack was approved by Ayatollah Khameini, the supreme leader of Iran, the 209-page ruling found.
		The bombing of Khobar Towers, a residence on a U.S. military base in Dhahran, killed a total of 19 servicemen.
	abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=2747461 (328 words)

	Ken Timmerman's Thursday column from FrontPagemag.com
		Because Terry Schwalier was the commander in the field with responsibility for the Khobar Towers complex.
		Chaired at the time by Senator Arlen Specter (R, Pa), the report concluded there was “no intelligence failure” that led to the Khobar Towers bombing, “but a failure to use intelligence.” And that failure, Specter concluded, belonged to Schwalier.
		Khobar Towers was the only U.S. military housing in Saudi Arabia to have such tight security.
	www.kentimmerman.com /news/2006_06_23-khobar.htm (1551 words)

	CNN - Judge upholds deportation of Saudi bombing suspect - May 5, 1997
		Canadian authorities maintain al-Sayegh served as a lookout for a suicide truck bomber who exploded a device outside the Khobar Towers military apartment complex in Saudi Arabia.
		The suspect has given different accounts of where he was on the day that the bomb exploded.
		The judge who decided the deportation case in Ottawa was presented with a thick file of documents -- including al-Sayegh's Saudi passport and identification card -- to buttress the government's claim that he was involved in the attack.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9705/05/khobar.towers/index.html (550 words)

	Remember > Toll Of Terrorism > Khobar Towers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The bomb tore away an entire wall of a high-rise apartment building, part of the Khobar Towers complex housing U.S. Air Force men and women assigned to nearby Dhahran Air Base.
		On June 29, 2001 a memorial for the victims and families of the Khobar Towers bombing was held by the No Greater Love organization at Arlington National Cemetery.
		When terrorists set off a tanker truck loaded with explosives in front of Khobar Towers on June 25, 1996, they not only killed 19 American servicemen but they changed the lives of the survivors and their loved ones forever.
	www.remember.gov /tollofterrorism/khobartowers/tabid/96/default.aspx (974 words)

	Khobar Towers - Indictments expected in military barracks bombing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The indictments surrounding the deadly explosion at Khobar Towers will include a Lebanese chemist who allegedly built the bomb, and 13 Saudi members of the militant Hezbollah group, government sources said Wednesday.
		The sources said no final decision has been made on the indictments, but with the statute of limitations due to expire for some of the possible charges on June 25, one is expected within a matter of days.
		The problem, he said, is linking the Iranians who may have played a part in the bombing to the Iranian government of the time.
	www.marysyellowstone.com /world/khobar.htm (519 words)

	Gulfnews: Ex-FBI chief believes Iran financed Khobar bombing
		Former FBI director Louis Freeh testified on Thursday that he believed there was "overwhelming evidence" that senior Iranian government officials financed and directed the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia.
		Freeh testified as a key witness on behalf of the families of 12 Americans killed in the bombing, who are suing the government of Iran.
		The bombing ripped a dormitory in half and killed 19 Air Force servicemen and servicewomen.
	archive.gulfnews.com /articles/03/12/20/105945.html (133 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This was a significant factor that contributed to the injuries sustained in the attack on Khobar Towers.
		Some individuals are learning procedures unique to Khobar Towers and the region, while the others are training new arrivals on-the-job in the techniques and procedures of police work at Khobar Towers and manning guard posts in the austere operating environment in the command.
		At Khobar Towers and King Abd Al Aziz Air Base, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, U.S. forces were not allowed to patrol outside of their area of the Base, but were allowed to patrol the route between the housing area and the Air Base.
	www.defenselink.mil /pubs/downing_rpt/unclf913.html (17246 words)

	ATTORNEY GENERAL STATEMENT ON KHOBAR TOWERS INDICTMENT
		They detonated that bomb near the north face of building #131 at Khobar Towers shortly before 10 p.m.
		As a personal matter for the victims and their families, the indictment returned today means that next week's five-year anniversary of this tragedy will come with some assurance to victim family members and to the wounded that they are not forgotten.
		Since the horrific attack on Khobar Towers five years ago, the Director has not wavered in his pursuit of this investigation.
	www.fas.org /irp/news/2001/06/khobar.html (799 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - Press Release
		Comparable to 20,000 pounds of TNT, the bomb was estimated to be larger than the one that destroyed the federal building in Oklahoma City a year before, and more than twice as powerful as the 1983 bomb used at the Marine barracks in Beirut.
		The indictment traces the carefully organized bomb plot back to on or about 1993 when Al-Mughassil, under Saudi Hizballah leader Al-Nasser, was head of the "military wing" of the Saudi Hizballah.
		It was during this time that Al-Marhoun, Ramadan and Al-Mu'alem determined Khobar Towers to be an important American military location and began an effort in the region to locate a storage site for explosives.
	www.fbi.gov /pressrel/pressrel01/khobar.htm (1569 words)

	CNN - Canada detains two who may be linked to Dhahran bombing - Mar. 24, 1997
		The June 25 terrorist bombing at the Khobar Towers military housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, injured 500 people and killed 19 Air Force members.
		The FBI refused to say publicly whether he is suspected of taking part in the bombing.
		However, in an interview with Reuters, Al-Sayegh said he was not in Saudi Arabia at the time of the bombing, and had documentation to prove it.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /US/9703/24/saudi.bombing (578 words)

	From Khobar to Cole
		In 1996, terrorists detonated a truck bomb beside Khobar Towers, an apartment block in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, used as a barracks.
		In the fleet, this was hardly a secret, as attested by the skipper of one ship that had refueled in Yemen shortly after the 1996 Khobar Towers attack.
		When Saudi officials wouldn't allow such construction around Khobar Towers itself, the Air Force pulled up stakes and moved everybody and everything to the remote confines of P-SAB, where human lookouts and sensors can spot and monitor approaching vehicles at a distance of more than a mile.
	www.afa.org /magazine/march2001/0301khobar.asp (1984 words)

	Rich Lowry on Bill Clinton & Khobar Towers on National Review Online
		In the Khobar case, the shroud of Saudi non-cooperation further clouded a complicated picture that made no sense according to the conventional wisdom that Shiite and Sunni terror groups — representing different variants of Islam — could never cooperate.
		Iran was determinedly, and predictably, unmoved, because anti-Americanism was close to the core of the regime.
		The Khobar bombing should have prompted severe consequences for both Saudi Arabia, for its financial support for the growing terror network, and Iran, for its direct involvement in the attack.
	www.nationalreview.com /lowry/lowry200311030753.asp (1896 words)

	Talk:Khobar Towers bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In reviewing this article I noted that the bomb delivery vehicle was referred to first as a fuel vehicle and subsequently as a large truck used for sewage treatment.
		I removed the erroneous comparison with the Nagasaki bomb and substituted a comparison with a Daisy Cutter instead.
		The yield of the Nagasaki bomb was 20 kilotons of TNT, which is 20,000,000 kilograms of TNT or 44,000,000 pounds of TNT, i.e.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Khobar_Towers_bombing (459 words)

	DefenseLINK News: DoD Releases Report on Khobar Tower Bombing
		As a result of the Khobar Towers attack, Pentagon officials are now adopting a radically different mindset on force protection, White said.
		The former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Special Operations Command said his team's charter was to assess to what extent the casualties and damage sustained at Khobar Towers were the result of inadequate security policies, infrastructure or systems.
		More than 130 security measures were taken at Khobar Towers alone, but as events later proved, they weren't enough to thwart the terrorist operation that left a massive truck bomb to detonate 80 feet from the airmen's high- rise quarters.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Sep1996/n09181996_9609181.html (1075 words)

	Common Sense Junction » Blog Archive » The Khobar Towers Bombing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On this day in 1996 the Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
		Suspicious activity was reported in the area of the Khobars Towers compound in the weeks preceding the attack and during the month of May, 1996 the U.S. military local area threat condition (THREATCON) was at its highest level, Delta, due to a recent terrorist bombing in Bahrain that killed 3 people.
		Later the General Downing report on the incident raised the probability that the explosion contained the TNT equivalence of 20,000 to 30,000 Pounds of TNT, several times larger than the bomb that destroyed the Murrah building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /blog/archives/1655 (372 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Iran ordered to pay in Khobar Towers bombing
		The Khobar Towers residence at a U.S. military base in Saudi Arabia is shown after it was bombed on June 25th, 1996, in this undated file photo.
		The lorry bomb involved in the attack was assembled at a base in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley operated by Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Guards, and the attack was approved by Ayatollah Khameini, the supreme leader of Iran, the 209-page ruling found.
		firmly establishes that the Khobar Towers bombing was planned, funded and sponsored by senior leadership in the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Lamberth wrote.
	news.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=1906422006 (601 words)

	Remember Khobar Towers by Louis J. Freeh
		While the horrific bombing scenes were still smoldering and littered with their victims in Riyadh, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami received a rousing welcome in Beirut, where he vowed to support "resistance" against Israel and called the U.S. occupation of Iraq a "great mistake" and a "dangerous game." Meanwhile, Mr.
		The FBI's investigation of the Khobar attack was extraordinarily persistent, indeed relentless.
		Bush's Saturday meeting with the Crown Prince in Washington, Ambassador Wyche Fowler, Dale Watson, the FBI's excellent counterterrorism chief, and I were summoned to a Monday meeting where the crown prince directed that the FBI be given direct access to the Saudi detainees.
	www.saudi-us-relations.org /defense/khobar-towers.html (1722 words)

	Saudi Arabia says Khobar bombing probe not over
		Saudi Arabia is still investigating the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing which killed 19 U.S. servicemen and is still not sure who was responsible, Interior Minister Prince Nayef said yesterday.
		Prince Nayef was responding to a CBS News report on Friday that said U.S. investigators had identified a senior Iranian official as one of some two dozen suspects in the bombing of the military complex.
		Some Saudi newspapers have linked the bombings to illegal activities, including trading in alcohol, which is banned in the kingdom.
	www.saudia-online.com /business173.htm (530 words)

	Khobar Towers Bombing Anniversary
		The U.S. military personnel who were killed in the Khobar Towers were in Saudi Arabia as part of a United Nations mandated mission.
		In June 2001, a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted fourteen Hezbollah terrorists - thirteen Saudis and one Lebanese - for the Khobar Towers attack.
		Iran's support for the perpetrators of the Khobar Towers attack was not an isolated phenomenon.
	www.voanews.com /uspolicy/2006-07-07-voa1.cfm (323 words)

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		We welcome the 14 indictments of those who are believed to have perpetrated the heinous bombing of the Khobar Towers complex in 1996.
		The specific condemnation of elements of the Iranian government for inspiring, supporting and supervising the attack is but another confirmation of Iran's ongoing support of terrorism.
		Iran's proven involvement in the Khobar Towers attack demonstrates the importance of continued U.S. vigilance in encouraging international efforts to counter Iran, including through the extension of the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act.
	www.adl.org /PresRele/IslEx_61/3868_61.htm (238 words)

	Khobar Towers Bombing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Khobar Towers, history spotlight graphic, U.S. Air Force graphic
		The Khobar Towers Memorial exhibit opened in June at Gunter Annex, near Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., on the third anniversary of the bombing.
		Artifacts recovered after the bombing and uniforms worn by three airmen killed in the blast are on diplay.
	www.af.mil /history/spotlight.asp?storyID=123010832 (391 words)

	The New Yorker : archive : content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Nearly a month before the bombing, the Saudis had beheaded several suspects who were being held in connection with the 1995 bombing of an American-run military compound in Riyadh—executing them before the F.B.I., despite entreaties, had had a chance to interview them.
		A frail asthmatic with a shadowy beard, Sayegh nervously denied any role in the bombing, but acknowledged at one time having been a member of the cell alleged to be behind it and provided specific details about how he believed the other cell members might have carried it out.
		Gore, who was supposed to press the Khobar case the hardest, had mentioned it only briefly, in reply to a question asked by the Crown Prince about the status of Sayegh, who had appealed for political asylum and, a year later, had still not been deported.
	www.newyorker.com /archive/content/articles/010924fr_archive06 (7775 words)

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