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...over a decade and eventually as a rendezvous for both regional and global militant conclaves organized by JI. Most notorious was the January 2000 meeting attended by up to 12 key JI and al-Qaeda figures, including Tawfiq bin Atash, top suspect in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in October 2000, two of the Pentagon hijackers, another key al-Qaeda figure Ramzi Binalshibh?who was captured in Karachi on Sept. 11 this year?and, of course, Hambali himself...
...captain Dan Shevchik and juniors John Cole, James Lawler and Rassan Grant paved the way for the Crimson with their multiple victory performances...
...balls only stayed in the air a few days. Last week word leaked out that the captive was Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a thirtyish Saudi and a senior al-Qaeda lieutenant with a taste for naval terrorism. He is suspected of masterminding the seagoing attack on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000 and at least two other, abortive plots against Western ships. FBI agents also believe he trained the suicide bombers who carried out the 1998 East African embassy bombings. Al-Nashiri may not be a household name, but he's a good catch. He has been in U.S. gunsights...
...main prey was a man called Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi. Known as Abu Ali, he was, according to Yemeni officials, a former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden's and the local mastermind of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor in October 2000. When an American Predator drone fired its Hellfire missile into al-Harethi's car as it moved along a remote desert road east of Yemen's capital Sana'a, it also killed five other people--all of them al-Qaeda operatives, according to the U.S., one a man Yemen says was a U.S. citizen...
...action infuriated opponents of the government, who called it a violation of sovereignty. There may be more to come. U.S. counterterror operatives in Yemen are already hunting their next target: Muhammad al-Hamati, a bakery owner who, a U.S. official says, helped al-Harethi with logistics for the Cole bombing. --By Azadeh Moaveni. With reporting by Scott MacLeod/Cairo and Elaine Shannon and Mark Thompson/Washington