Khobar

Another sad anniversary comes today: June 25th, 1996, the housing complex assigned to U.S. Air Force personnel in az-Zharan (Dhahran), Saudi Arabia, was hit with a truck bomb rigged as a semi-shaped charge. The result was horrific, even with the attack failing to collapse the entire structure of Building #131. 19 U.S. service personnel and one Saudi national were killed, 372 people were wounded. Through the pages of history, the announcements of their deaths can still be read.

So can the indictment against the perpetrators and the Rewards for Justice announcement that still seeks information about them.

If not for an alert sentry and some well-placed jersey barriers, it would have been worse. Far worse.