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...industrialized world and in post-Soviet "countries in transition," 34 million people remain undernourished. In the Commonwealth of Independent States, the prevalence of undernourishment is greatest in Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia, while in Central Europe, Bulgaria is considered the worst case. In the Middle East and North Africa, Yemen, Morocco and Iraq are among the worst off. ? Asia and the Pacific have more chronically hungry people than elsewhere, says the FAO, but the "depth of hunger" - a calculation based on what energy they get from their food and the minimum energy needed to maintain body weight - is greatest...
...foothold in nations on Afghanistan's northern border. Despite that, Russians are investigating reports out of Aden that before the U.S.S. Cole was bombed, its attackers possessed containers with Cyrillic lettering. Some investigators theorize that the containers held Soviet-made military high explosives from stockpiles abandoned by South Yemen's deposed Marxist regime or Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan. --By Elaine Shannon and Massimo Calabresi/Washington
...other cases fragmentary intelligence can be useless. In the investigation of last October's attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, for example, Osama bin Laden has long topped the list of suspects, thanks to intelligence linking the bombing to his camps in Afghanistan. But court-worthy evidence showing a direct bin Laden role is hard to come by. More damning is the case of the 1998 U.S. cruise missile attack on the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum. The U.S. said it had proof chemical weapons were being produced there, but both CIA and State Department officials have since...
...strategic national security response is much less clear-cut. After the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the U.S. military reacted with missile attacks in Afghanistan and the Sudan-by some considered terrorist acts in themselves. Not surprisingly, the reaction to the USS Cole attack in Yemen was much less drastic. In this case, the U.S. is trusting in the Yemen court system to punish the alleged terrorists...
...agenda and a lack of faith in the ship's crew to implement appropriate defensive procedures. Such blatant disregard for American lives is unacceptable. Regardless of whether the U.S. was aware of past attempts against American naval vessels or the de-miners, it is clear that the embassy in Yemen, the Navy and the ship's captain were clearly aware of the threat environment, one that included precedent for attacking U.S. military interests and a national context of violently anti-American groups. The onset of Palestinian-Israeli fighting and Baghdad's renewed efforts to break sanctions should only have heightened...