In Sunday, Oct. 15, 2000 file photo, experts in a speed boat examine the damaged hull of the USS Cole at the Yemeni port of Aden after a powerful explosion ripped a hole in the U.S Navy destroyer in the Yemeni port, killing 17 sailors and injuring some 30 others. A federal appeals court on Thursday, June 20, 2013 reinstated a lawsuit by the families of 17 sailors killed in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday reversed a lower court's dismissal of the lawsuit against Sudan.