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...Kuwait attack follows an incident on Sunday in which the French oil tanker Limburg exploded in waters off Yemen. Although investigators are still probing the cause of the blast, European officials believe it was a terrorist attack by an explosive-laden skiff - similar to the October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole, also off Yemen, ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden and an area where his movement remains popular. The tanker blast came a day after the Qatari al-Jazeera cable network broadcast what it claimed was an audio tape from bin Laden warning of attacks on Western economic interests...
...weeks ago, when Moroccan police in Casablanca announced the arrest of three Saudis--Zuher al-Tbaiti, Abdullah al-Ghamdi and Hilal Alissiri--on suspicion of plotting an attack on an American or British warship in the Strait of Gibraltar. (The group had been planning to buy a Zodiac motorized skiff, which could have been used for an attack like the one on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000.) Moroccan officials tell TIME that they started tailing the group after a tip from the U.S., which had been questioning Moroccan al-Qaeda detainees in Cuba. The detainees told the Americans they...
...Using the meticulous planning for the Cole operation as their blueprint, they scouted for housing that could serve as a surveillance post overlooking refueling stations in Mellilia and in Ceuta, Spanish-controlled coastal enclaves in Morocco. The pair, sources tell TIME, also looked into purchasing a Zodiac, a motorized skiff that could be transformed into a torpedo operated by a suicide terrorist...
...cottage. The yard was overgrown with tall grass, and if you weren't careful you might fall into the small, empty cracked-concrete swimming pool. A path led down to Charles Creek, a tributary of Chesapeake Bay. There was a ramshackle dock with many planks missing, and a skiff, from which we caught crabs by trailing knotted twine behind us in the weedy, brackish-green water. We were impressed by the stupidity of the crabs, which clung stubbornly to the twine as we hauled them up to die in the skiff...
...nearby Yemen, suicide bombers in a small skiff blasted a hole in the U.S. warship Cole yesterday at a refueling stop, American officials said...