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...result of an intelligence failure or logistical necessities are suspect. Gen. Anthony Zinni, former commander of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf (also known as Central Command, or CENTCOM), assumed responsibility for moving refueling operations and testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Yemeni port of Aden was the least vulnerable option--and thus essential to U.S. Persian Gulf operations. Nothing seems further from the truth...
...sound, the search for the culprits behind the suicide bombing could produce still more frustration. A team of counterterrorism experts, including 100 FBI investigators, accompanied by a protective force of U.S. Marines and diplomatic security agents, flew to the scene last week, setting up shop on three floors of Aden's Hotel Movenpick. Investigators believe an established organization was behind the attack, since suicide bombers are well trained and subjected to extensive psychological preparation before setting out on their missions. Pulling off an attack of last week's magnitude required considerable bombmaking expertise and access to what officials estimate...
...coming days the onshore investigators will look at violent indigenous Yemeni groups, like the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, a terrorist organization whose former leader was executed last year for the kidnapping of 16 Western tourists in 1998. But the more likely suspects, experts say, are international troublemakers operating in Yemen. Bin Laden, who attempted to blow up an Aden hotel housing U.S. service members in 1992, has helped recruit and support several fanatically anti-American terrorist cells, including the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Army of Yemen, which is headed by Bin Laden's brother...
Most notable among these is the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, an extremist organization once led by Zein Al-Abideen al-Mehdar, a.k.a. Abu Hassan, who was sentenced to death for kidnapping 16 Western tourists and executed...
...Aden-Abyan Islamic Army is not on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations but is emblematic of the many groups operating in Yemen, organizations that counterterrorism officials say combine extremist ideology with the pragmatic business of extorting foreign companies and kidnapping tourists. Two such groups--previously unknown--have claimed responsibility for the attack...