Incident Date:
June 25, 1996 22:28
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Unknown Saudi Arabia
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Vehicle)
Organization Type: Religious,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Military(Military Barracks/Base/Headquarters/Check Post)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim: No
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 19 fatalities, 547 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "06/25/1996: At 10:28 p.m., a tanker truck bomb exploded at the U.S. military's compound at Khobar Towers (variant al-Khubar), near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The explosion killed 19 American airmen and wounded 547 others, including nearly 250 Americans, 147 Saudis, 150 Bangladeshis, four Egyptians, two Jordanians, two Indonesians, and two Filipinas. Investigators found a detonator similar to those used by Hizballah. Many suspected local Saudi Islamic radicals, perhaps aided by Iran. Scores of people were rounded up for questioning, and a Palestinian magazine in London claimed that six people belonging to the Movement for Islamic Reform, a Saudi dissident group, had confessed. According to the magazine, two Kuwaitis and two Lebanese assailants were included in the group. Ottawa immigration officials detained Hani Abdel-Rahim Hussein al-Sayegh, one of the alleged perpetrators. Canadian immigration officials also arrested Fahad Shehri, a Saudi who arrived in Canada in December and claimed refugee status. The Canadian authorities charged Shehri with being a terrorist on March 26. On May 5, Canadian Federal Judge Donna McGillis rules that there was conclusive evidence that Sayegh participated in the bombing, clearing the way for deportation."
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F. and Susan L. Simmons. (2002). Terrorism, 1996-2001: A Chronology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 38-43."
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