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...elements of the Governance Initiative is to greatly increase the exchange between the Middle East and Harvard,” said Barbara Bodine, the director of the Governance Initiative and former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen. “One of the primary elements of that is to simply increase the number of Middle Eastern students enrolled...
...Navy warships motored into international waters off the coast of Yemen to aid in the search for Al Qaeda escapees, President George W. Bush stood before paintings of Revolutionary War Minutemen Thursday and touted the success of international cooperation in the war on terror. In his speech to the National Guard Association in Washington, Bush revealed new details about a foiled 2002 Al Qaeda plan to use "shoe bombs" to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building on the West Coast - a Los Angeles skyscraper that intelligence analysts later determined was the Library Tower, now named...
...expertise of the people who were there." All 13 had been housed together, she said, and "we are disappointed that their restrictions in prison weren't more stringent." When asked why the U.S. wasn't keeping closer tabs on how the Al Qaeda prisoners were being incarcerated in Yemen, a U.S. law enforcement official said, "that assumes the Yemenis care what we think...
...discover that the Yemenis were allowing the Al Qaeda prisoners to be housed together and to communicate freely. The lax security measures stand in sharp contrast to the isolation of prisoners kept at American-controlled facilities in Guantanamo Bay and around the globe. For its part, the Embassy of Yemen in Washington, D.C., did not return calls for comment. The U.S. is working closely with Saudi Arabia to find the escapees, said Townsend, a number of which Saudi Arabia itself had turned over to Yemen. The escape, said Townsend, is "a great, if not a greater, threat" to Saudi Arabia...
...From Nellis Air Force Base, outside Las Vegas, Rogers controls a Predator, a flimsy drone that has been transformed from a spy plane into one of the wars' most lethal weapons. Predators played a key part in catching Saddam Hussein and have killed al-Qaeda suspects in Pakistan and Yemen. In September a Predator tracked 11 insurgents who had attacked a U.S. base in Iraq, then killed them as they fled...