Word: yemen
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TIME has learned that the FBI is poised to send agents back into Yemen because of intelligence reports that al Qaeda loyalists may try to establish bases in that nation's lawless areas. Yemen, along with Pakistan, is considered top priority by the FBI and the intelligence community as they try to interdict fleeing Bin Laden operatives scrambling to find sanctuary...
...treatment of the alleged terrorists at X-Ray, if only to keep them under control and the international community off the Pentagon's back while it ponders what to do with its captives? And could the war on terror - lately expanded with the departure of U.S. military trainers to Yemen - benefit from a little partisan nay-saying...
...YEMEN Street Cornered A brother-in-law of one of the Sept. 11 hijackers blew himself up with a hand grenade as security forces moved in to capture him in a suburb of the capital, Sana'a. Sameer Mohammed Ahmed al-Hada was also wanted in connection with the Oct. 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. Earlier in the week, the fbi issued a terror alert identifying 17 al-Qaeda suspects, six of whom were found to be in jail in Yemen...
...There are messages from Europe for Americans too. In the wake of the Afghanistan war, the U.S. has signaled that it will take action against terrorists and their supporters wherever they may be-in Yemen or Iraq or Indonesia. Yet with the camps in Afghanistan destroyed, many of the world's most dangerous terrorists are not in the Islamic world at all but in the cities of western Europe. They will be brought to justice not by U.S. special forces or B-52 pilots but by skillful forensic work and international cooperation among criminal-justice professionals. After the triumphs...
...YEMEN Showdown A raid on an alleged al-Qaeda hideout highlighted the difficulty of eradicating the radicals. At least 12 tribesmen and soldiers died after leaders in the village of al-Husoun refused to hand over suspected al-Qaeda members, responding to the military operation with gunfire and grenades. Officials said that some suspects were arrested, but several leaders escaped. Even so, Washington praised the move by Yemen, Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland...