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...from a responsible government. It has a long and shameful history of dealing violence, death and destruction to its own people, as well as allowing others to attack the U.S. from Afghan soil. Bin Laden and his organization are widely believed to have planned the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, as well as the bombing of American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. Now more than 6,000 innocent civilians have been killed, and the U.S. has the right and obligation to investigate the source of these atrocities first-hand...
...considered too vague to pass along, but by this summer those suspicions had firmed up. There was no indication of the plot they had in mind, but there were strong hints of links to bin Laden associates, including a connection to a suspect in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, enough to raise a flag in the CIA database. A U.S. official deep in the investigation says it has now been determined from Immigration and Naturalization Service records that Al-Midhar and Alhamzi visited the U.S. briefly in 2000. They returned in July 2001, giving "Marriott in New York City...
...still able to get out his message, though, through interviews and videotapes produced for his supporters. A tape of his son's wedding last January features bin Laden reading an ode he'd written to the bombing by his supporters of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, an attack that killed 17 service members. "The pieces of the bodies of the infidels were flying like dust particles," he sang. "If you had seen it with your own eyes, your heart would have been filled with...
Aden Oct. 12, 2000 A small boat pulled beside a destroyer, the U.S.S. Cole, while it was refueling, and exploded, killing 17 sailors...
Until he retired from the FBI in August, John O'Neill, 49, was America's pit bull on terrorism. As head of the bureau's national-security operations in New York City, he oversaw investigations into the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, both believed to be the work of groups linked to Osama bin Laden. Two weeks ago, O'Neill began a new job: chief of security at the World Trade Center...