1992 Aden hotel bombings | |
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Part of the Somali Civil War | |
Location | Gold Mohur Hotel and Aden Mövenpick Hotel, Aden, Yemen |
Date | 29 December 1992 |
Target | U.S. Marines |
Attack type | Bombings |
Weapons | Bombs |
Deaths | 2 |
Injured | 7 |
Perpetrators | Al-Qaeda |
The 1992 Aden hotel bombings were two terrorist bomb attacks carried out by al-Qaeda on December 29, 1992, that were intended to kill United States Marines in Aden, Yemen. It is considered to be the first attack on the United States by Al-Qaeda, though the objective was mostly unsuccessful.