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Khobar Towers bombing  

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  • Nineteen U.S. service members were killed when a truck bomb destroyed their high-rise Air Force barracks in Dhahran, eastern Saudi Arabia, on June 25, 1996. Bombers pulled a tanker truck stuffed with explosives up next to the dormitory, and then jumped into waiting vehicles, escaping just before the detonation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Khobar Towers Bombing]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GH966N8P-M

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