A car suicide bombing on an army recruitment camp in Aden, Yemen, that killed 72 people. The 2020 opening described the bombing as one of a series of terrorist attacks by Islamist militants, including Islamic State, in Yemen. The opening no longer uses the word, though terror survives six times in the body. A reader today does not learn that Wikipedia's own opening once placed the bombing within a wider pattern of Islamist militant terrorism in Yemen.
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The opening as it read in 2020
August 29, 2016, a powerful car suicide bombing was conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant , on an army camp in Aden , Yemen in which 72 people died and 67 were wounded.1 The attack took place as new military recruits were signing up in a local government school. According to military sources, the recruitment was being done for new soldiers joining the Yemeni and Saudi Arabian led coalition army, fighting the Huthi rebels at the northern border with Saudi Arabia.2 ISIS claimed responsibility and referred to the bombing as a "martyrdom operation". The bombing was one of a series of terrorist attacks by Islamist militants, including Islamic State, in Yemen. The attacks were especially directed at soldiers, public defense workers, and recruits, as a consequence of the 18-month-old civil war between the Houthi movement and Hadi 's supporters.3"Isis suicide bomb attack kills at least 54 in Yemen" . 29 August 2016 .4
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 3 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Suicide car bombing On the morning of August 29, 2016, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conducted a powerful car suicide bombing on an army camp in Aden , Yemen , killing 72 and wounding 67. The attack took place as new military recruits were signing up in a local government school. Despite Al-Qaeda's large presence in the area, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant were the only ones to claim responsibility for the bombing. ISIS claimed responsibility and referred to the bombing as a "martyrdom operation". The Manila Times Online . 30 August 2016 .The New York Times . (subscription required) "Isis suicide bomb attack kills at least 54 in Yemen" .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Suicide car bombing in Yemen On the morning of August 29, 2016, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conducted a powerful car suicide bombing on an army camp in Aden , Yemen , killing 72 and wounding 67. The attack took place as new military recruits were signing up in a local government school. Despite Al-Qaeda's large presence in the area, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant were the only ones to claim responsibility for the bombing. ISIS claimed responsibility and referred to the bombing as a "martyrdom operation". The Manila Times Online . 30 August 2016 . The New York Times . (subscription required) "Isis suicide bomb attack kills at least 54 in Yemen" .
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“terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 6. Read the current article and compare.
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