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...habit of kidnapping foreign tourists to use as bargaining chips in disputes with the central government. Such hostages were rarely harmed until this June, when nine foreigners were kidnapped - including two German women and a South Korean woman whose mutilated bodies were later discovered by shepherds. After the attack, the government effectively stopped granting permission to foreigners - including journalists - to travel anywhere but the capital, Sana'a, and the coastal region around the port city of Aden. (See pictures of conflict in Yemen...
...government and al-Qaeda shifted after 9/11 and the American invasion of Iraq, when the Yemeni government worried that it too might be on the receiving end of U.S. military action. Sana'a helped the U.S. with the assassination of a leader of al-Qaeda in 2002, by missile attack from a Predator drone, even as it turned a blind eye to other extremists as long as they didn't cause trouble...
Instead, in announcing the arrests, officials had to concede that they had "no specific information regarding the timing, location or target of any planned attack." What the FBI had were bits and pieces of evidence--handwritten notes on bomb-making techniques, materials that could be used for explosives--that, taken together, hint at the "backpack bombs" used by terrorists in Madrid in 2004 and London...
...Crimson struggled offensively, generating a .067 attack clip relative to Dartmouth’s .222. Junior Mikaelle Comrie, who managed eight kills, led the women’s squad with help from sophomore Anne Carroll Ingersoll, who recorded seven. Harvard also had six more team members contribute at least two kills over the three-set match...
...Green’s Megan MacGregor did not encounter such troubles on the attack, notching 16 kills on 29 attempts for a .517 attack percentage...