Word: yemen
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...former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden's and the local mastermind of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor in October 2000. When an American Predator drone fired its Hellfire missile into al-Harethi's car as it moved along a remote desert road east of Yemen's capital Sana'a, it also killed five other people--all of them al-Qaeda operatives, according to the U.S., one a man Yemen says was a U.S. citizen. He was not just any man, it seems. U.S. officials think he was Kamal Derwish, a Yemeni American cited in federal court...
...awful lot to protect him. Reports of continued infusions of cash certainly suggest that there are plenty of wealthy people somewhere in the world willing to make an exceedingly risky investment in al-Qaeda. Even more troubling are the signs that scores of supporters, from Bali to Pakistan, Yemen to Europe remain ready to give their lives to murder others in the name of bin Laden's cause...
...further doses." Hanning's analysts figured he was referring to the April 11 synagogue bombing on the Tunisian island of Djerba that killed 21, including 11 German tourists; and the May 8 ambush in Karachi that killed 11 French naval engineers. The attack on the French tanker Limburg off Yemen just days before the broadcast only heightened suspicions. Al-Zawahiri seemed to be describing a campaign to punish Europe - specifically, France and Germany - for supporting the U.S. in its war against al-Qaeda. Several websites with links to al-Qaeda have in recent weeks published new threats aimed at Europe...
...asked Hitler to “resolve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and the other Arab countries in the same way as the problem was resolved in the Axis Countries.” A few years later, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Yemen drove out most of their Jewish citizens through official government edicts and waves of anti-Semitic attacks...
...targeted strikes against al-Qaeda suspects rather than major conventional military offensives. Having scaled back dramatically in the decade following the Cold War, U.S. intelligence services began beefing up their covert operations capability in the wake of the September 11 attacks, and the elimination of al-Harthi in Yemen may be a sign that such capability is now being aggressively deployed...