All of the following were terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda during the 1990s EXCEPT
A. the bombing of U.S. embassies in Asia that killed several hundred people.
B. the bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen.
C. a truck bomb that killed several U.S. airmen in Saudi Arabia in 1996.
D. the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City by parking an explosives-packed truck in the basement of one of the towers.
Answer: A
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