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Line 22: ==The attack== {{more citations needed\|section\|date=June 2017}} AOn 13 November 1995,a car bombing in [[Riyadh]] led the U.S. forces stationed at Khobar Towers to raise the threat condition to [[THREATCON]] DELTA. Days after this car bombing, military commanders briefed soldiers and airmen at Khobar that the U.S. had received anonymous communications from an organization claiming to have carried out the Riyadh attack. The attackers claimed their goal was to get the [[United States Armed Forces]] to leave the country, and that Khobar Towers would be attacked next if troop withdrawal did not begin immediately. It was at this time that surveillance and other suspicious activity near the perimeter fences of Khobar Towers was noted by [[United States Air Force Security Forces]]; however, the forces were forbidden by the Saudi government to act in any capacity outside the perimeter of the compound, and the surveillance continued with near impunity. The attackers were reported to have smuggled explosives into Saudi Arabia from [[Lebanon]]. Al-Mughassil, Al-Houri, Al-Sayegh, Al-Qassab, and the unidentified Lebanese man bought a large latrine service [[tanker truck]] in early June 1996 in Saudi Arabia. Over a two-week period they converted it into a truck bomb. The group now had about {{convert\|5000\|lbs\|kg}} of plastic explosives, enough to produce a [[shaped charge]] that detonated with the force of at least {{convert\|20000\|lbs\|kg}} of TNT, according to a later assessment of the Defense Special Weapons Agency. The power of the blast was magnified several ways. The truck itself shaped the charge by directing the blast toward the building. Moreover, the relatively high clearance between the truck and the ground gave it the more lethal characteristics of an [[air burst]].<ref>{{cite journal\|last=Grant\|first=Rebecca\|url=http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2006/June%202006/0606Desert.aspx\|title=Death in the Desert\|journal=Air Force Magazine\|date=20 June 2006\|access-date=3 September 2010}}</ref>

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