Al-Qaida militant behind USS Cole attack killed in airstrike, Trump confirms
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An al-Qaida militant accused of masterminding the deadly suicide-bombing attack on the USS Cole naval destroyer in 2000 has been killed in an airstrike, U.S. President Donald Trump said.