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...State Department program to supply its overseas stations with safety garb. And security agencies in Australia conducted practice drills to rehearse their response to a chemical, biological or radiological strike. One Islamist website warned that an attack would come Friday, but the day passed without incident. YEMEN Another Big Al-Qaeda Catch In Yemen The political calculation: the Bush Administration wanted everyone to know it had nabbed an al-Qaeda big. The security calculation: it didn't want anyone to know who the person was, while it "tickled the wires" - tried to provoke the terrorists into communications and movement that...
...former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden's and the local mastermind of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor in October 2000. When an American Predator drone fired its Hellfire missile into al-Harethi's car as it moved along a remote desert road east of Yemen's capital Sana'a, it also killed five other people--all of them al-Qaeda operatives, according to the U.S., one a man Yemen says was a U.S. citizen. He was not just any man, it seems. U.S. officials think he was Kamal Derwish, a Yemeni American cited in federal court...
...operated by the CIA, flew from Djibouti, the new home of the U.S. military command--Joint Task Force Horn of Africa--charged with hunting terrorists in the region. The armed version of the Predator had proved itself in the war in Afghanistan last year, but the attack in Yemen marked the first known use of the drone to kill a terrorist leader outside an acknowledged field of combat--a tactic human-rights advocates liken to assassination. The strike owed its success to a tip from Yemeni authorities on the whereabouts of al-Harethi, and U.S. officials say Yemen gave...
...awful lot to protect him. Reports of continued infusions of cash certainly suggest that there are plenty of wealthy people somewhere in the world willing to make an exceedingly risky investment in al-Qaeda. Even more troubling are the signs that scores of supporters, from Bali to Pakistan, Yemen to Europe remain ready to give their lives to murder others in the name of bin Laden's cause...
...further doses." Hanning's analysts figured he was referring to the April 11 synagogue bombing on the Tunisian island of Djerba that killed 21, including 11 German tourists; and the May 8 ambush in Karachi that killed 11 French naval engineers. The attack on the French tanker Limburg off Yemen just days before the broadcast only heightened suspicions. Al-Zawahiri seemed to be describing a campaign to punish Europe - specifically, France and Germany - for supporting the U.S. in its war against al-Qaeda. Several websites with links to al-Qaeda have in recent weeks published new threats aimed at Europe...