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The Boat That Smiled: How a Wave Blew a Navy Apart
The Boat That Smiled: How a Wave Blew a Navy Apart
A routine refueling stop became a scene of planned destruction: a small fiberglass boat approached USS Cole in Aden on October 12, 2000, its two occupants smiling as it carried over 1,000 pounds of shaped C4 that tore a 40-by-60-foot hole through the hull. How did a failed rehearsal nine months earlier, intercepted intelligence about a Kuala Lumpur summit, and an edited security-camera tape all converge to allow seventeen sailors to die?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events aboard the destroyer and in the months before the…
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