DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The U.S. Navy seized a large cache of weapons being smuggled by two small ships off the coast of Somalia, it announced Tue.
34 GULF OF ADEN – Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) honored the 17 lives lost during the Oct. 12, 2000 attack on the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) with a remembrance ceremony in the Gulf of Aden, Oct. 12.
On Thursday Oct. 12, 2000, Cole pulled into Aden Harbor, Yemen, for a brief stop for fuel. Around 11:18 local time, a small boat carrying C4 explosives and two suicide bombers approached the port side of the destroyer and exploded, blowing a hole in the hull of the ship. Much of the blast entered a mechanical space below the ship’s galley, killing 17 Sailors and injuring many others.