Dharhan

Can you imagine the reaction of the American public if Saddam had lobbed a nuke at Dharhan and killed 50,000 US troops in one shot?

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On June 25, 1996, a truck bomb with five thousand pounds of explosives rocked the Khobar Towers military housing complex in Dharhan, Saudi Arabia, killing dozens of people, including nineteen American soldiers, and wounding more than five hundred others.

House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger 2004

On June 25, 1996, a truck bomb with five thousand pounds of explosives rocked the Khobar Towers military housing complex in Dharhan, Saudi Arabia, killing dozens of people, including nineteen American soldiers, and wounding more than five hundred others.

House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger 2004

And the irony continued throughout most of the session's presentations, by Mona Khazinder, director of Paris's Institut du Monde Arabe, Richard Koshalek, director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, and Barry Lord, co-president of Lord Cultural Resources Planning and Management Inc., who is currently overseeing the construction of the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Dharhan, Saudi Arabia.

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