On this day in history, October 12, 2000, terror attack on USS Cole kills 17 American sailors, wounds dozensThe USS Cole suffered a surprise attack by al Qaeda suicide bombers while at port in Yemen — killing 17 American sailors and wounding about three dozen others, on this day in history, Oct. 12, 2000.
It proved an ill-heeded harbinger of much more terrifying al Qaeda attacks on the United States' homeland 11 months later.
"Sadly, it took the grievous attack on 9/11 for us to collectively realize that al Qaeda presented a truly consequential threat to America’s security," Admiral Christopher W. Grady, now vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation's second-highest ranking military officer, wrote during a 20th anniversary retrospective of the attack............
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