Attempted assassination of Dick Cheney

Attempted assassination
of Dick Cheney
Attempted assassination; of Dick Cheney
	Dick Cheney in Bagram, Afghanistan in 2004, roughly three years prior to the attack.
Location	Bagram, Afghanistan
Date	February 27, 2007 ; 10:00 a.m. (UTC+4:30)
Target	Bagram Air Base; Vice President Dick Cheney
Attack type	suicide attack, assassination attempt
Deaths	23
Injured	20
Perpetrators	Taliban; al-Qaeda

34°56′46″N 69°15′54″E / 34.946°N 69.265°E / 34.946; 69.265

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, the Vice President of the United States, was visiting.^[1] The attack occurred inside one of the security gates surrounding the heavily guarded base 60 km north of Kabul.^[1] In 2007, Bagram was the main US airbase in Afghanistan.

^ ^a ^b "Cheney unhurt in blast outside Afghan base". CNN. Associated Press. 2007-02-27. Archived from the original on 2007-03-01. Retrieved 2007-02-27.

[cnn-1] "Cheney unhurt in blast outside Afghan base". CNN. Associated Press. 2007-02-27. Archived from the original on 2007-03-01. Retrieved 2007-02-27.

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