19 U.S. troops die in truck bombing at big Saudi Arabia base 20 years ago this hour (June 25 1996)


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(Tuesday, June 25, 1996, 9:50 p.m. AST) — A truck bomb ripped through an apartment complex housing Air Force pilots and other American military personnel near the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Dhahran today, killing 19 Americans, wounding 498 people and raising new concern about the stability of the vast Saudi desert kingdom.