Navy sailors were killed and thirty-seven injured in the deadliest attack against a United States naval vessel since the USS Stark incident in 1987. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack against the United States.
naval vessel since the Iraqi attack on on 17 May 1987.
In the remaining days LCU 1632 and various personnel from LCU 1666 teamed up to patrol around Cole. ==Investigation== In a form of transport pioneered in 1988 by aboard Mighty Servant 2, Cole was hauled from Aden aboard the Dutch semi-submersible heavy lift salvage ship .
The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack by the terrorist group al Qaeda against , a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, on 12 October 2000, while she was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor. Seventeen U.S.
On 13 February 2020, the government of Sudan agreed to compensate families of the sailors who died in the bombing. ==Attack== On the morning of Thursday, 12 October 2000, Cole, under the command of Commander Kirk Lippold, docked in Aden harbor for a routine fuel stop.
Navy destroyer while in port at Aden on 3 January 2000, as a part of the 2000 millennium attack plots.
On 10 June 2000, Mihdhar left San Diego to visit his wife in Yemen at a house also used as a communications hub for al-Qaeda.
Cole arrived in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on 13 December 2000, where she was rebuilt. FBI and NCIS agents sent to Yemen to investigate the bombing worked in an extremely hostile environment.
The staff of the 9/11 Commission found that al-Qaeda's direction of the bombing was under investigation but "increasingly clear" on 11 November 2000.
Then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice told the Commission that when the administration took office on 20 January 2001; "We knew that there was speculation that the 2000 Cole attack was al Qaeda ..
In June 2001, an al-Qaeda recruitment video featuring Osama bin Laden boasted about the attack and encouraged similar attacks. Al-Qaeda had previously attempted a similar but less publicized attack on the U.S.
We will find out who was responsible and hold them accountable." On 19 January 2001, the U.S.
Bush had been criticized for failing to respond militarily to the attack on Cole before 11 September 2001.
The 9/11 Commission Report cites one source who said in February 2001, "... [bin Laden] complained frequently that the United States had not yet attacked [in response to the Cole] ...
Then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice told the Commission that when the administration took office on 20 January 2001; "We knew that there was speculation that the 2000 Cole attack was al Qaeda ..
Former CIA Director George Tenet testified (page 196) that he "... believed he laid out what was knowable early in the investigation, and that this evidence never really changed until after 9/11." The report suggests (pages 201–202) that the official assessment was similarly vague until at least March 2001: On 25 January, Tenet briefed the President on the Cole investigation.
in March 2001, the CIA's briefing slides for Rice were still describing the CIA's "preliminary judgment" that a "strong circumstantial case" could be made against al Qaeda but noting that the CIA continued to lack "conclusive information on external command and control" of the attack. According to Rice, the decision not to respond militarily to the Cole bombing was President Bush's.
The agreement was finalized on 3 April 2020. ==Memorial== A memorial to the victims of the attack was dedicated at Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia on 12 October 2001.
Among the allegations leveled by a Guantanamo Military Commission against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, captured in late 2002, was that he was the mastermind of the Cole bombing.
This number included 13 who were convicted of the bombings of Cole and the French tanker MV Limburg in 2002.
The money was awarded based on the 2002 Terrorism Risk Insurance Act and spearheaded by Miami Attorney Andrew C.
He, too, was described as the mastermind of the Cole bombing. In 2003, the U.S.
Al-Badawi, also called a "mastermind" of the Cole bombing, was one of seventeen captives who escaped through a tunnel from a Yemeni jail in 2006. Al-Badawi was killed in a drone strike on 1 January 2019 in the Marib governate, Yemen. Tawfiq bin Attash, who was captured in Pakistan 2003 and is currently being held in U.S.
All six were killed in the strike. On 29 September 2004, a Yemeni judge sentenced Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Jamal al-Badawi to death for their roles in the bombing.
Al-Badawi, in Yemeni custody, denounced the verdict as "... an American one." Four others were sentenced to prison terms of five to 10 years for their involvement, including one Yemeni who had videotaped the attack. In October 2004 the Navy consolidated the forces it deploys for anti-terrorism and force protection under a single command at NAB Little Creek.
Military tribunal system, announced charges are being sworn against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi Arabian citizen of Yemeni descent, who has been held at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since 2006.
Al-Badawi, also called a "mastermind" of the Cole bombing, was one of seventeen captives who escaped through a tunnel from a Yemeni jail in 2006. Al-Badawi was killed in a drone strike on 1 January 2019 in the Marib governate, Yemen. Tawfiq bin Attash, who was captured in Pakistan 2003 and is currently being held in U.S.
MARFPCOM aligned four existing components: the Mobile Security Forces, Naval Coastal Warfare, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), and Expeditionary Mobile Diving and Salvage Forces. On 3 February 2006, 23 suspected or convicted Al-Qaeda members escaped from jail in Yemen.
After being granted "...permission from the Yemeni government to fly back to shore," an agent said their helicopter took evasive action during the flight due to fears of shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles. == Responsibility == On 14 March 2007, a federal judge in the United States, Robert G.
The judge stated; On 25 July 2007, Doumar ordered the Sudanese government to pay $8 million to the families of the 17 sailors who died.
In spite of this finding, Lippold was subsequently denied promotion and retired at the same rank of commander in 2007. In Afghanistan the bombing was a "... great victory for bin Laden.
Al-Qaeda's Yemeni number two Abu Assem al-Ahdal may also have escaped. On 17 October 2007, al-Badawi surrendered to Yemeni authorities as part of an agreement with al-Qaeda militants.
"The Cole Scenario", launched in 2007, takes place aboard a realistic destroyer mock-up housed at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois.
Sudan's Justice Minister Mohammed al-Mard has stated that Sudan intended to appeal the ruling. By May 2008, all defendants convicted in the attack had escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials.
On 30 June 2008, Brigadier General Thomas W.
Two other escapees remained at large. In June 2008 the United States charged Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri with planning and conducting the attack.
On 5 February 2009, the United States dropped all charges against al-Nashiri "without prejudice" to comply with President Obama's order to shut down the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, but reserved the right to file charges at a later date.
Charges were reinstated in 2011. In 2009, U.S.
defense officials said a "precision strike" was carried out east of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. Another lawsuit against Sudan was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in 2010 by 15 of the Cole sailors and three spouses, seeking damages from the country for knowingly supporting the terrorists that struck the ship.
Charges were reinstated in 2011. In 2009, U.S.
drone strike on 31 January 2012.
On 6 May 2012, officials from the Yemen government reported that al-Quso was killed in an airstrike earlier in the day in southern Yemen.
A default judgement was awarded to the sailors for more than US$314 million in 2012.
Harrison (Docket 16-1094) and took oral arguments on 9 November 2018.
Al-Badawi, also called a "mastermind" of the Cole bombing, was one of seventeen captives who escaped through a tunnel from a Yemeni jail in 2006. Al-Badawi was killed in a drone strike on 1 January 2019 in the Marib governate, Yemen. Tawfiq bin Attash, who was captured in Pakistan 2003 and is currently being held in U.S.
It's taken so much more time than we thought it should take." On 1 January 2019 Jamal al-Badawi, an al-Qaeda militant behind the attack, died in a U.S.
On March 2019, the Supreme Court vacated the Second Circuit's decision and overturned the award. The Cole bombing plays a highly visible role in Navy damage-control training, which begins in boot camp with a pre-graduation Battle Stations event.
On 13 February 2020, the government of Sudan agreed to compensate families of the sailors who died in the bombing. ==Attack== On the morning of Thursday, 12 October 2000, Cole, under the command of Commander Kirk Lippold, docked in Aden harbor for a routine fuel stop.
The training focuses on preparing recruits for damage control challenges they may face in the fleet. On 13 February 2020, the Government of Sudan announced that it had reached an agreement to compensate the families of the USS Cole victims, a prerequisite for being removed from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
The agreement was finalized on 3 April 2020. ==Memorial== A memorial to the victims of the attack was dedicated at Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia on 12 October 2001.
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