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USO club bombing  

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  • On April 14, 1988, a USO club in Naples, Italy, was rocked by a car bomb that killed five people and injured more than a dozen, including several Americans. Further investigations revealed that the attack was in retaliation for the April 1986 bombings of military sites in Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; USO Club Bombing]

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