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Spurred on by disturbing revelations since the Sept. 11 attacks of Yemen's connections to terrorism, President Ali Abdullah Saleh claims he wants to end the country's fabled history of lawlessness. It was one thing when tribesmen held foreign visitors for ransom; now it's clear world-class terrorists have been using Yemen for major operations and recruitment. "The President is declaring loud and clear: 'No to terrorism,'" says Faris Sanabani, a Saleh adviser and editor of the weekly newspaper Yemen Observer. "No one wants to wake up to the sound of an explosion...
That's exactly what happened in October 2000 in the southern port of Aden, when an al-Qaeda suicide squad drove a boat laden with explosives into the destroyer U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 American sailors. Earlier this month, Pakistani officials arrested Ramzi Binalshibh, an al-Qaeda operative from Yemen who U.S. investigators believe helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks. U.S. officials also say al-Qaeda used Yemen's honey trade as a cover to raise cash and smuggle weapons...
...national pastime of chewing a mildly narcotic leaf called kat. According to a recent local study, a typical Yemeni laborer spends three times as much on kat as on food. Saleh would like to make the country more economically productive, but investors are leery of Yemen's frontier culture. After Sept. 11, the government launched a grand sweep against individuals suspected of al-Qaeda links, and it still holds hundreds, according to high-level officials. In his effort to impose order, Saleh has tried more subtle measures too. Until a year ago, it was normal for cars, especially those belonging...
...special forces have trained and equipped Yemeni counterparts in the arts of counterterrorism. But last week Yemeni officials felt compelled to loudly deny press reports that the 800 U.S. troops amassed in nearby Djibouti might eventually be deployed in Yemen. Saleh's campaign is popular with many Yemenis, but they draw the line at the presence of foreign troops. At the Wadi Dhahr wedding ceremony, Ahmed Saeed, a retired army officer who carried his 8-month-old grandson on his shoulders, was pleased when the police took away the reveler who had opened fire. "We have the greatest President...
...Qaeda cell in the U.S., federal officials were full of confidence. The case seemed just about perfect, from the fact that no shots were fired during the arrest to the cooperation from local Muslims. Indeed, FBI sources tell TIME that additional agents are being dispatched to Yemen to try to snap cuffs on Kamal Derwish and Jaber Elbaneh, two other members of the alleged cell and U.S.-born Yemenis thought to be hiding somewhere in their ancestral homeland. The agents, who will operate with Yemeni government permission, also hope to find more evidence against the "Buffalo Six." But there...