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...hard. Washington balks at Moscow's efforts to blame bin Laden for the Chechnya uprising. And, says a U.S. official, the Russians fear "we are exploiting the bin Laden bogeyman" to gain a foothold in nations on Afghanistan's northern border. Despite that, Russians are investigating reports out of Aden that before the U.S.S. Cole was bombed, its attackers possessed containers with Cyrillic lettering. Some investigators theorize that the containers held Soviet-made military high explosives from stockpiles abandoned by South Yemen's deposed Marxist regime or Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan. --By Elaine Shannon and Massimo Calabresi/Washington
...official Yemeni source has reported to investigators that the terrorist group--characterized as being non-Yemeni--seen as responsible for the Cole attack last October had previously attempted to hit a U.S. warship refueling in Aden, but failed when the terrorists' boat proved un-seaworthy. In addition, terrorists allegedly twice attempted to strike U.S. military mine clearance personnel within the past year...
...analysts to be of particular significance to radical Jihadists such as OSAMA BIN LADEN. According to one FBI official, as many as three aborted terrorist events may have been intended for around that night last Ramadan, including an alleged plot to bomb U.S.S. The Sullivans when it refueled in Aden on Jan. 3, 2000. Increasing the worry this year is the flurry of preparations for the impending Inauguration of George W. Bush, the son of the man who waged the Persian Gulf War. The FBI's crisis command center is operating 24-7, with agents working through the Christmas...
...fact that a small boat was able to maneuver right up to the Cole suggests a mind-boggling lapse of security. Nothing Washington or the Pentagon can say changes that. In a port like Aden, which has been called a "sieve for terrorists," why weren't all boats approaching the Cole searched? Some people should lose their jobs for this lack of security. It cost 17 sailors their life. JOHN D. MARSHALL Honolulu...
...taken the lead in the Cole investigation. Last week it got a break in another case when a former Army sergeant pleaded guilty to conspiring in the embassy-bombing plot, fingering Bin Laden as an associate. In Aden, FBI and Navy divers have set up a crime-scene grid on the bottom of the harbor to sift evidence systematically. The divers are searching it inch by inch for the remains of the bomb, the boat that carried it and the suicide bombers. Officials tell TIME that sailors aboard the Cole took snapshots as the ship arrived in port. FBI agents...