US Foreign Policy Flashcards
Learn important US foreign policy events from the Vietnam War to the present day.
The Khobar Towers tanker-truck bombing (June 25, 1996) was carried out by…
Hezbollah Al-Hejaz (Saudi, Bahrain, Kuwait)
Hezbollah AL-Hejaz is active in these three countries
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait
In June 1996, Hezbollah Al-Hejaz killed 20 people and wounded 498 in the truck-bombing of this housing complex
Khobar Towers (in the city of Khobar)
Hezbollah Al-Hejaz is of this branch of Islam
Shi’ite
At the time of its bombing, Khobar Towers was used for…
housing foreign military personnel
The Khobar Towers bombing was preceded in ____ by a car bombing in ____
November 1995, Riyadh
US Air Force Staff Sgt Alfredo Guerrero initiated the following prior to the Khobar Towers bombing, saving dozens of lives
floor-by-floor evacuation of Building #131, as he had observed the vehicles from the rooftop and recognized them as a threat
Name two factors that reduced casualties in the June 1995 Khobar Towers bombing.
Evacuation; Jersey barriers along the road between the tanker-truck bomb and target (concrete highway barriers)
The main security concern at Khobar Towers was to prevent vehicles from entering the compound itself, due to a previous bombing in [place and time]
Beirut barracks bombing, October 23, 1983, during the Lebanese civil war
As a result of the 1995 Khobar Towers bombing, US and Coalition military forces were relocated to…
Prince Sultan Air Base, a Royal Saudi Air Force installation in central Saudi Arabia, ~1 hour from Riyadh
The 1995 Khobar Towers bombing was perpetrated by attackers from ____ and sponsored by _____
Saudi Arabia; Iran and/or Al-Qaeda (sources vary)
