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...investigation into the bombing of the USS Cole. Speaking off the record, U.S. officials have complained that the Yemenis have limited their access to sites containing possible evidence and barred them from interviews with suspects and witnesses. This despite President Clinton's personal intervention last week imploring Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh to allow a "genuine joint investigation...
American Intelligence Agencies now strongly suspect that the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a Cairo-based extremist group that is part of OSAMA BIN LADEN's loose network, may have carried out the Oct. 12 attack in Yemen on the U.S.S. Cole. But unless the Yemeni regime allows the FBI access to witnesses and suspects, that may never be proved. The Yemenis are refusing to let U.S. agents join Yemeni authorities in conducting interviews. On Friday FBI Director Louis Freeh and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appealed to President Ali Abdullah Saleh to let FBI agents "work as partners" with Yemeni cops...
...knew what to do. After the bombings of the U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, it took 40 hours to get most FBI investigators on site. Learning from Africa, Freeh created five special Rapid Deployment teams around the country ready to fly anywhere. The first FBI boots hit Yemen four hours after the blast. Agents then arrived in waves over the next 30 hours...
Yemeni cops claim a crucial lead in the case came from a 12-year-old boy, whom the suspected terrorists gave $12 worth of Yemeni rials to watch their car. The cops say they found the suspects' vehicle undisturbed in the same location, bearing license plates stolen in Yemen's hinterlands and loaded with diving gear and alleged bomb equipment, since taken by the FBI for analysis. Among the discoveries: the men may have had as many as five safe houses. Yemen's President has implied a link between the suspects and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a group closely tied...
threats in order to push a pro-Yemen policy agenda. If CENTCOM had visions of using Aden to support American troops in regional missions it shows a shortsightedness with respect to vulnerability, as well as a lack of understanding that such actions would...