{"id":114867,"date":"2021-06-25T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=114867"},"modified":"2021-06-25T16:46:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:46:16","slug":"khobar-towers-attack-25-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=114867","title":{"rendered":"Khobar Towers&#8217; Attack 25 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114868 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/khobar-tower-memorial-flame-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/khobar-tower-memorial-flame-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/khobar-tower-memorial-flame-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/khobar-tower-memorial-flame-466x333.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Khobar Towers eternal flame monument and memorial wall at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., were dedicated one year after the Khobar Towers bombing June 25, 1996. (U.S. Air Force photo\/Samuel King Jr.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eggs reminds us of the Khobar Tower terror attack in Saudi Arabia,<br \/>\non this day, 25 years ago.<\/p>\n<h3>Remembering the Khobar Towers bombing<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Bruce Riedel<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twenty-five years ago, at about 9:30 pm in the evening of June 25, 1996, a huge explosion rocked the barracks for the United States Air Force 4404 Provisional Wing in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The blast from a truck bomb was so massive it was felt in Bahrain 20 miles away. Nineteen American airmen were killed and 498 people were wounded, most of them Saudis and foreign guest workers in nearby buildings next to the parking lot where the bomb exploded.<\/p>\n<p>The terrorist attack on the Khobar Towers was the bloodiest attack on America between the Beirut Marine barracks disaster in 1983 and September 11, 2001. Its legacy still haunts Washington\u2019s relations with Iran. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Iranians have been at war with us since November of 1979.  Thanks for the timely reminder, Eggs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/order-from-chaos\/2021\/06\/21\/remembering-the-khobar-towers-bombing\/\">Remembering the Khobar Towers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Khobar Towers eternal flame monument and memorial wall at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., were &hellip; <a title=\"Khobar Towers&#8217; Attack 25 Years Ago\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=114867\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Khobar Towers&#8217; Attack 25 Years Ago<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114869,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114867\/revisions\/114869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}