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...continue to be placed in harms way, deserve better. Claims that the USS Cole incident was the 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...
...other conflicts involving Muslims. But he also declared a jihad against the United States, and has been accused of authoring a number of bloody attacks on Americans, most notably the 1998 embassy bombings in east Africa. He's also a prime suspect in the attack on the USS Cole...
...turning globalization into a weapon of their own, using it to gain access to more deadly technology and to more closely coordinate their efforts. Says former National Security Council counterterrorism expert Daniel Benjamin: "We're still in the boost phase for this kind of fusion." The attack on the Cole may signal the beginning of the blowback...
Figuring out who is responsible for the attack on the Cole promises to be a difficult process. Counterterrorism officials in Washington say they will divide their likely targets into three categories. The first key group will be indigenous Yemeni factions that are known for occasional lawlessness but are difficult to track...
Counterterrorism officials stress that there is no immediate evidence pointing to any of these groups. But the Cole attack would have been a feather in the cap of any of them. Now, the U.S. must be worried that they are after even bloodier decoration. --By Massimo Calabresi