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...Qaeda leader on Sunday is a major tactical victory in the U.S. war on terrorism - a war whose rules and terms are quite unlike any America has ever known. Indeed, the assassination by Predator drone of Ali Qaed Sinan al-Harthi in the wilds of northern Yemen encapsulates much about the new war - one of covert actions, sometimes in murky circumstances, designed to disrupt the terrorists' efforts to regroup far from erstwhile sanctuaries in Afghanistan. And it shows the U.S. is plainly now open to assassination as a means of eliminating terror threats...
...Manila. Combined, they left 10 dead. (A bomb in Zamboanga earlier in the month killed an additional three people, including a U.S. Green Beret commando.) Before Bali, terrorists in Kuwait had killed an American Marine, and a French oil tanker off the shores of Yemen had been bombed. In a statement purporting to be from bin Laden posted on a website, al-Qaeda praised the Kuwait and Yemen attacks. And in Italy this month, authorities arrested five Tunisians suspected of having terrorist connections. An investigator in Milan told TIME that the plot was the first sign in a year that...
...some progress lately--partly because there are just more terrorist hunters than there used to be. In addition to the 8,000 members of the armed forces in Afghanistan, there are now nearly 800 U.S. forces based in the East African nation of Djibouti, across the Red Sea from Yemen, and a Marine Corps amphibious assault ship, the Belleau Wood, has been in the area since August. Sources tell TIME the U.S. is looking to use the port of Assab in Eritrea as a naval base to keep an eye on traffic between Yemen, Sudan and Somalia. At home...
...military campaign and the global antiterrorist dragnet, bin Laden's network seems intent on proving that it is still in business and is casting about for new targets. French and U.S. officials believe the Oct. 6 explosion that ripped a large hole in a French oil tanker off the Yemen coast, killing a Bulgarian crew member, was the work of terrorists linked to al-Qaeda. The blast closely resembled al-Qaeda's October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden. Two days after the tanker blast, members of a Kuwaiti terrorist cell that had "pledged...
...analyst with Deutsche Bank: "The opportunities for expansion are tremendous." Driving the oil rush is Washington's search for reliable oil suppliers outside the Middle East - a search made more urgent in the wake of this month's terror bombing of an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. European companies such as TotalFinaElf and Royal Dutch Shell have long been players in the region but leading the new charge are U.S. giants ExxonMobil and Chevron and independents such as New York-based Amerada Hess. American firms have been particularly aggressive in wooing new producing countries like Equatorial Guinea...