What the records say
- When
- 27 Feb 2007
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 34.95° N, 69.27° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Attempted assassination of Dick Cheney.
Summary
2007 Bagram Air Base bombing: A Taliban suicide attack at Bagram Air Base while Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney is visiting kills 23, but he is not injured.
Attempted assassination of Dick Cheney
2007 suicide attack in Afghanistan
The attempted assassination of Dick Cheney was a 2007 suicide attack that killed up to 23 people and injured 20 more at the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, while Dick Cheney, then Vice President of the United States, was visiting. The attack occurred inside one of the security gates surrounding the heavily guarded base 60 km north of Kabul. In 2007, Bagram was the main US airbase in Afghanistan.
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