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Date October 12, 2000
Location Aden • Yemen
Participants al-Qaeda

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Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden
leader of al-Qaeda terrorist organization
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Egyptian militant