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![]() On June 25, 1996, a massive truck bomb detonated at the Khobar Towers housing complex that was housing US Air Force personnel in Saudi Arabia.The attack has been credited to al-Qaeda by the government of Saudi Arabia although Osama bin Laden never took credit for the bombing. Five Americans and two Indians were killed and 60 people were wounded. military was training Saudi National Guardsmen. On November 13, 1995, a car bomb exploded at a facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where the U.S.Osama bin Laden was never charged for the attack. The attack was not an official al-Qaeda operation, though the attack's mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, had trained in al-Qaeda camps. The blast killed six people and injured over 1,000 others. A bomb built in Jersey City was driven into an underground garage of the World Trade Center. On February 26, 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed for the first time.Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the attack in 1998. ![]() That bomb detonated prematurely in the hotel car park, around the same time as the other bomb explosion, killing an Austrian tourist and a Yemeni citizen. The bombers targeted a second hotel, the Aden Movenpick, where they believed American troops might also be staying. troops had been staying while en route to Somalia, though the troops had already left when the bomb exploded. That evening, a bomb went off at the Gold Mohur hotel, where U.S.
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