9-19-2001......In October 2000, a boat packed with explosives punched a fiery hole into the U.S.S. Cole off the coast of Yemen. The blast killed 17 servicemen. Bin Laden in Feburary 2001 praised the attack at his son's wedding in Kandahar, Afghanistan. At the wedding, bin Laden recited a poem that praised the attack, part of which reads in Arabic: "The pieces of the bodies of infidels were flying like dust particles." "dailynews Yahoo" |