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...valley known as Wadi Dhahr, with its orange cliffs and lush orchards a few miles from the mountaintop capital of Sana'a, is one of Yemen's most stunning landscapes. As usual, last Friday it was alive with the sounds of a Yemeni wedding celebration. A circle of turbaned men danced to a frenzied drumbeat, brandishing their silver swords and daggers. Suddenly a jubilant member of the wedding party pulled out a Kalashnikov and fired into the air, a practice common during Yemeni celebrations. What happened next was anything but customary. To the astonishment of those gathered, within minutes policemen...
...Faruq was to set in motion new terrorist missions. Knowing the U.S. Navy was scheduled to conduct joint exercises in the Surabaya harbor in late May, al-Faruq plotted a suicide attack against a U.S. ship, similar to the deadly al-Qaeda operation against the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in 2000. He drafted a Somali operative named Gharib to help find Arabs willing to participate in the suicide mission. But when he failed to recruit enough operatives to carry out the plan, al-Faruq had to scrap...
Although Saudi Arabia keeps stoning on its books, human-rights groups are not certain whether it is still carried out there. Yemen brought back the practice in 2000 for the brutal case of Mohammed Thabit al Su'mi, who raped and murdered his 12-year-old daughter. Witnesses reported that al Su'mi took four hours...
What about President Clinton's inadequate response to the first bombing of the World Trade Center, in 1993, and the October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen? Why didn't the Clinton team act quickly to retaliate in both those instances? That's the question. Why is it that when we have a President in the Oval Office with integrity, you want to blame him? You should be looking at the Administration that had a "good" time and a cigar in the Oval Office. CAROL (KERI) DEVINE York...
...never given the go-ahead; the Clinton Administration did not order an American retaliation for the attack. "We didn't do diddly," gripes a counterterrorism official. "We didn't even blow up a baby-milk factory." In fact, despite strong suspicion that bin Laden was behind the attack in Yemen, the CIA and FBI had not officially concluded that he was, and would be unable to do so before Clinton left office. That made it politically impossible for Clinton to strike--especially given the upcoming election and his own lack of credibility on national security. "If we had done anything...