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After years of strained relations with Washington, the government of Yemen has quietly allowed the FBI to open an office in its capital city, San'a, TIME has learned. "Yemen is a hotbed" of Al Qaeda fighters, says a top U.S. counter-terror official. The FBI, along with the CIA and the U.S. military, is urgently trying to disrupt efforts by the jihadists to reconstitute command and control structures in parts of rural Yemen controlled by clans hostile to the government in San'a and sympathetic to Osama Bin Laden, whose own family roots are in Yemen...
...FBI agents posted to San'a are forging bonds with Yemeni security officials in the hope of gaining far greater access to telephone records, prisoner interrogations and other intelligence about Yemeni al-Qaeda operatives that have been involved in a series of major terrorist incidents, including the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor; last year's attacks on a French tanker off Yemen's coast and an Israeli tourist hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; and the May 12 bombing of Western residential compounds in Riyadh...
...lack of a single, integrated government clearinghouse for terrorist threats. A single center would ensure that information would be spread around liberally and that someone could ultimately be held accountable. But instead of just one clearinghouse, there are more threat centers than ever before. Each agency--the CIA, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security--has its own analytical or operations center, and some have both. Several agencies still produce separate watch lists of terrorists operating worldwide. Last week Congress grew impatient with what seemed to be an exploding universe of terrorist information and action centers in Washington. "Right...
...White House has been pelted with leaks (which Bush aides claim are coming from the CIA) that contradict Administration statements. By accepting some of the blame, the White House hopes to hush the family sniping. Some aides even welcomed the congressional report on intelligence failures at the CIA and FBI before 9/11 as a way of diverting attention. "Now it's the CIA and FBI pointing fingers at each other," said a top aide of the report, "instead of the CIA and White House pointing fingers at each other...
ARRESTED. CARLTON DOTSON, 21, former Baylor University basketball player and best friend of teammate Patrick James Dennehy II, who vanished June 12; for Dennehy's murder; in Chestertown, Md. According to police documents, Dotson confessed to FBI agents that he shot Dennehy and told them where to look for the body. On Saturday a badly decomposed body, found 5 miles from Baylor, was turned over to the medical examiner for identification...