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This is your host, Robbie Martin. This is your host, Robbie Martin.

It's me solo again for the second part of our 9-11 bulletin feature, Clinton's War on Terror.

And if you didn't catch part one, you can find it at media roots.org or on

soundcloud.com slash media dash roots it's the second to last episode we have up the last episode

was abbey's firsthand account of her experience at guantanamo Bay covering the trials that are happening

there right now.

But we're just going to launch right back into Clinton's War on Terror, starting with

the Cobar Towers bombing.

On June 25, 1996, 19, American airmen were killed while they slept at the Kobar Towers complex in Saudi Arabia.

The terrorist bombing injured more than 500 others.

No concrete leads have been established.

Saudi dissident was believed to have been involved in the blast, but the case against him fell apart when he reneged on a plea bargain agreement

and insisted he had no

information on the bombing. And this is from Wikipedia. It was, quote, a terrorist attack on part of a

housing complex in the city of Kobar, Saudi Arabia, located near the national oil company, Saudi

RMCO. And this would be the first in a string of late 90s terrorist attacks that all sort of occurred outside the United States, but were later reported to be from al-Qaeda or bin Laden himself.

But what was interesting about this terrorist attack is since it took place in Saudi Arabia, there's a lot of information out there that not only

the U.S. government, but the Saudi Arabian government and the U.S. government coordinated together

to blame Iran for the attack, instead taking the focus away from, which at the time was

Saudi Arabian government's financial support of bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

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