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That It Boy of international terror, Osama Bin Laden, is back in the news. Headlines from just the past week: "Russians Reveal Bin Laden Plot to Kill Bush at G8 Meeting." "Bin Laden Video Claims Responsibility for Cole Bombing." "Yemen Foils Bin Laden Plot to Kill U.S. Investigators." "Bin Laden Group Planned to Blow Up U.S. Embassy in India?" And finally, at week's end, U.S. forces all over the Gulf confined to barracks and ships put to sea because of a "non-specific but credible threat" from Bin Laden's group. Vile acts and wretched conspiracies reported from...
...arrested a group of men allegedly planning to blow up the U.S. embassy in New Delhi and quickly turned up evidence linking the plot to Bin Laden. Two days later, an unrelated plan, involving suicide bombers killing U.S. agents investigating the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, was foiled in Yemen; their trail, too, leads back to Bin Laden. He was in the news again the following day after Western reporters were shown a Bin Laden promotional video in which he appeared to claim responsibility for the bombing of the Cole in a macabre poem...
...industrialized world and in post-Soviet "countries in transition," 34 million people remain undernourished. In the Commonwealth of Independent States, the prevalence of undernourishment is greatest in Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia, while in Central Europe, Bulgaria is considered the worst case. In the Middle East and North Africa, Yemen, Morocco and Iraq are among the worst off. ? Asia and the Pacific have more chronically hungry people than elsewhere, says the FAO, but the "depth of hunger" - a calculation based on what energy they get from their food and the minimum energy needed to maintain body weight - is greatest...
...foothold in nations on Afghanistan's northern border. Despite that, Russians are investigating reports out of Aden that before the U.S.S. Cole was bombed, its attackers possessed containers with Cyrillic lettering. Some investigators theorize that the containers held Soviet-made military high explosives from stockpiles abandoned by South Yemen's deposed Marxist regime or Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan. --By Elaine Shannon and Massimo Calabresi/Washington
...other cases fragmentary intelligence can be useless. In the investigation of last October's attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, for example, Osama bin Laden has long topped the list of suspects, thanks to intelligence linking the bombing to his camps in Afghanistan. But court-worthy evidence showing a direct bin Laden role is hard to come by. More damning is the case of the 1998 U.S. cruise missile attack on the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum. The U.S. said it had proof chemical weapons were being produced there, but both CIA and State Department officials have since...