1996/06/25

       A truck-bomb, parked by Hiz`b-Allah (Hezbollah; Arabic for “Party of God”) Al-Hejaz, explodes at the Khobar Towers, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 members of the United states Air Force (private mercenaries).

       [added 10/11/2025]

Subsequent Events:

2/23/1998                   7/17/1998                   10/14/1999                   9/11/2001

References:

Yousef Bodansky, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, (Centerport, New York: Forum, 1999), 151.

Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic, (New York: Metropolitan, 2004), 238.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$38,857,671,304,563

Source