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Attack on the Cole...
...Yemenis aren't being accused of stonewalling, as such, but there appears to have been a shoe-challenging case of foot-dragging on the investigation into the bombing of the USS Cole. Speaking off the record, U.S. officials have complained that the Yemenis have limited their access to sites containing possible evidence and barred them from interviews with suspects and witnesses. This despite President Clinton's personal intervention last week imploring Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh to allow a "genuine joint investigation...
American Intelligence Agencies now strongly suspect that the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a Cairo-based extremist group that is part of OSAMA BIN LADEN's loose network, may have carried out the Oct. 12 attack in Yemen on the U.S.S. Cole. But unless the Yemeni regime allows the FBI access to witnesses and suspects, that may never be proved. The Yemenis are refusing to let U.S. agents join Yemeni authorities in conducting interviews. On Friday FBI Director Louis Freeh and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appealed to President Ali Abdullah Saleh to let FBI agents "work as partners" with Yemeni cops...
Clarkson should be fine on defense led by First Team All-ECAC Kent Huskins (2, 14), but will have to search the ranks to find goal scorers. It lost top-sniper Eric Cole (20, 10) to the NHL along and some valuable supporting cast. In goal, the Golden Knights have a fine keeper in Shawn Grant, but if he falters at all look for Head Coach Mark Morris to start holding tryouts for the position in Potsdam, N.Y. All this means Clarkson will again take a while to find its stride if the immense talent there doesn't appear...
...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...