Al Qaeda Attack Attempt
Members of al-Qaeda attempted an attack on The Sullivans while in port at Aden, Yemen on 3 January 2000 as a part of the 2000 millennium attack plots. The plan was to load a boat full of explosives and explode near The Sullivans. However the boat was so overladen that it sank, forcing the attack to be abandoned. Later, al-Qaeda tried the same type of attack a second time, successfully bombing the USS Cole (DDG-67) on 12 October 2000.
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