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USS Cole bombing — The USS Cole (DDG 67) is towed away from the port city of Aden, Yemen, into open sea by the Military Sealift Command ocean-going tug USNS Catawba (T-ATF 168) on Oct. 29, 2000. Cole will be placed aboard the Norwegian heavy transport ship M/V Blue Marlin and transported back to the United States for repair.
Photo Credit: By DoD photo by Sgt. Don L. Maes, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released) - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1379643

USS Cole bombing The USS Cole (DDG 67) is towed away from the port city of Aden, Yemen, into open sea by the Military Sealift Command ocean-going tug USNS Catawba (T-ATF 168) on Oct. 29, 2000. Cole will be placed aboard the Norwegian heavy transport ship M/V Blue Marlin and transported back to the United States for repair.

Aftermath of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing in Kenya in 1998 —
Photo Credit: By FBI - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=252606

Aftermath of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing in Kenya in 1998

1993 World Trade Center bombing — Underground damage after the bombing
Photo Credit: By Bureau of ATF 1993 Explosives Incident Report - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1952440

1993 World Trade Center bombing Underground damage after the bombing

King Abdulaziz University yard —
Photo Credit: By Ammar shaker at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18252576

King Abdulaziz University yard

logo for King Abdulaziz University —
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logo for King Abdulaziz University

Osama bin Laden — being interviewed by Hamid Mir, circa March 1997 – May 1998
Photo Credit: By Hamid Mir - http://www.canadafreepress.com/, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15159070

Osama bin Laden being interviewed by Hamid Mir, circa March 1997 – May 1998

Bbanner of Muslim Jihad — The Shahada written in white on a black background. This is the reverse of File:Flag of Taliban.svg, the Shahada written in black on a white background, the flag used by the Taliban in the period of 1997-2001. According to comments at FOTW, some Islamist websites began to display the black-on-white flag alongside the white-on-black one: "I have found in several "hard Islamic" websites the symbol of a white Taliban flag crossed with its inverted colour version (probably identified as Al-Qaeda flag): black background with shahada in white. I do not know if this flag is recognised by Al-Qaeda; but it is normally flying in pro-Al-Qaeda sites." (Santiago Tazon, 17 November 2001) According to a comment from 2003: "This black flag with the Shahada in white on it is the RAYAH, the flag of the Jihad in Islam. Not the banner of single group claiming for Jihad but the banner of the Jihad.
Photo Credit: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1189517