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...Administration is using self-interest as an argument with the Saudis. Counterterrorism investigators have tracked members of active al-Qaeda cells in Yemen who have slipped across the border to set up operations in Saudi Arabia. U.S. intelligence officials told TIME that the CIA is showing the Saudis evidence that al-Qaeda is planning attacks inside the kingdom. High on the list of potential targets are petroleum facilities and oil-pumping stations that, if struck, would disrupt Saudi oil output; the CIA thinks al-Qaeda may also target housing compounds and shopping malls frequented by Westerners. --Reported by Perry Bacon...
Your article "They Didn't Know What Hit Them" [WORLD, Nov. 18] described how in Yemen an American Predator drone fired a missile by remote control into a car carrying suspected terrorists and killed them. You said, "U.S. officials think" that one of the six killed was Kamal Derwish, "a Yemeni American cited in federal court papers as the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell" in the U.S. Another victim, "according to Yemeni officials," was a former bodyguard of bin Laden's. Apparently, the U.S. now kills without judicial trials and without questions. Are we nothing more than technically...
...risks are lower. As a U.S. intelligence officer says, "One of the things that figures into their calculations are chances of success." So the terrorists are taking aim at accessible places --dance halls and hotels, shopping malls and tourist sites, the nightclub in Bali and the French tanker off Yemen--that are not and can never be very well protected. When the soft targets are linked to tourism in countries that count on it, the secondary economic impact can be almost worse...
...been in U.S. gunsights for ages. On the morning of Sept. 11, new FBI Director Robert Mueller was being shown his picture along with those of other suspects in theCole bombing when word of the World Trade Center disaster arrived. Al-Nashiri's capture follows another success in Yemen earlier this month when senior al-Qaeda leader Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi and five others were incinerated by a missile fired by a CIA-operated Predator drone. U.S. officials hope al-Nashiri will lead them to others involved in the Cole and embassy bombings. --By Johanna McGeary. Reported by Elaine...
...goals. Although senior organizers and foot soldiers have been arrested, very few "colonels" have been captured. JI is becoming more dependent on al-Qaeda operatives from the Middle East (Saudi al-Qaeda lieutenant Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was en route to Malaysia when he was recently nabbed in Yemen, and Yemeni national Syafullah, a senior al-Qaeda officer, is wanted for participating in the Bali bombings), which could lead to a significant escalation in violence in SE Asia and possibly to suicide attacks, hitherto almost unknown in the region. JI and al-Qaeda are also working hard to rebuild...