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...enough infrastructure to set up shop. In the past, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been a reluctant U.S. partner. The FBI complains that Yemeni authorities cooperated only "grudgingly and slowly," as one official puts it, with the investigation of the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Aden. Since Sept. 11, Saleh, looking to strengthen his rule and reap economic aid by cooperating, has apparently had a change of heart. Still, there is a risk the presence of U.S. forces will provoke extremists in Yemen to new terrorist acts...
...scale of what terrorists have been doing to the U.S. and its allies for years. Israelis suffer smaller-scale bombings on a nearly weekly basis, and Americans have faced similar attacks on their embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi and on a navy vessel in the port of Aden...
ATTACK DEC. 29, 1992 ADEN, YEMEN One hundred U.S. servicemen had just left the Gold Mohur Hotel, on their way to duty in Somalia, when the bomb hit. It killed two people in the hotel and seriously wounded four tourists. Two suspects reportedly had 23 bombs, two antitank mines, dynamite and machine guns...
ATTACK OCT. 12, 2000 ADEN, YEMEN A boat laden with explosives rammed the U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 sailors and wounding more than 30. Bin Laden, at his son's wedding, wrote an ode to his supporters who carried out the attack: "The pieces of the bodies of the infidels were flying like dust particles...
...November. Pickard, a 27-year bureau veteran who supervised the prosecution of the World Trade Center bombers as well as the terrorism cases against the "blind sheik" Abdel Rahman, the East Africa embassy bombers and the perpetrators of the attack on the USS Cole in Aden, has been the FBI's chief operating officer since late 1999, when then-FBI director Louis Freeh made him his right hand...