{"id":61572,"date":"2015-08-26T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61572"},"modified":"2015-08-26T09:55:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T13:55:45","slug":"khobar-towers-attack-mastermind-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61572","title":{"rendered":"Khobar Towers attack mastermind arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/suspect-1996-khobar-towers-bombing-arrested-125307152--politics.html\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that Ahmed al-Mughassil, reputed mastermind of the June 25, 1996, bombing at Khobar Towers US military housing in Saudi Arabia, was arrested in Beirut and transferred to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al-Mughassil, also known as Abu Omran, is one of 13 people named in a 2001 indictment in Alexandria, Virginia, in connection with the bombing. Charges include murder of federal employees and bombing resulting in death. None of the 13 has yet been brought to court to face charges, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. federal grand jury indictment named 13 Saudis and one Lebanese man in connection with the bombing, saying they were part of the Saudi Hezbollah extremist group. That group was founded by members of the desert kingdom&#8217;s Shiite minority who fled into exile in the 1980s to escape what they said was persecution by the kingdom&#8217;s Sunni majority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The eight story Khobar Towers building was home to the United States Air Force personnel from the 4404th Wing (Provisional) who were performing search and rescue support. 19 were killed and nearly 500 were injured in the attack. The attack has been blamed on Saudi terrorists, al Qaeda and Iran depending on which indictment you want to read, but ultimately, it was a failure of the US government to learn the lessons of the 1983 Beirut bombing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that Ahmed al-Mughassil, reputed mastermind of the June 25, 1996, bombing at &hellip; <a title=\"Khobar Towers attack mastermind arrested\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61572\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Khobar Towers attack mastermind arrested<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61572","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}