Club members get free admission for Thursday discussion on USS Cole bombing

National Press Club members can attend for free when the National Law Enforcement Museum holds a panel discussion on the USS Cole attack at 7 p.m. on Thursday in the Museum’s Signature Theatre.

In the early morning hours of October 12, 2000, the USS Cole was attacked by two suicide bombers in Yemen’s Aden harbor. The assault left 17 sailors dead and 39 injured. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation led a joint investigation into the bombing.

Occurring less than a year before 9/11 and following a failed attack on another U.S. naval vessel also in the Aden harbor, this bombing was part of al-Qaeda’s repeated assault on the United States.

The panelists will be Barbara Bodine, former ambassador to the Republic of Yemen during the attack and subsequent NCIS-FBI investigation; Cathy Clements, former NCIS Special Agent and member of the Major Case Response Team that was first on the scene of the bombing; and Robert McFadden, former NCIS Special Agent and co-case agent for the NCIS-FBI investigation of the USS Cole bombing

Jim Handly of WRC-TV will moderate.

To get the free admission, reserve in advance to [email protected].