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Front Burner- Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole

✍ Scribed by Lippold, Kirk S

Book ID: 107196029
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

The former Commander of the USS Cole tells the full story of the deadly terrorist attack on his ship and its frustrating, fateful aftermath.

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Front burner: al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole

✍ Lippold, Kirk 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 PublicAffairs 🌐 English ⚖ 607 KB 👁 1 views

On October 12, 2000, eleven months before the 9/11 attacks, the USS *Cole* docked in the port of Aden in Yemen for a routine fueling stop. At 1118, on a hot, sunny morning, the 8,400-ton destroyer was rocked by an enormous explosion. The ship’s commander, Kirk Lippold, felt the ship violently thrus