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GERMANY Al-Qaeda Arrests In an apparent breakthrough in the effort to apprehend members of al-Qaeda, German police arrested two Yemeni men in a hotel at Frankfurt airport. The arrests were made at the request of U.S. officials, who suspect the men of being members of the terrorist network. Authorities believe one, Mohammed Ali Ahssan al-Moayyed, is a high-ranking fundraiser for al-Qaeda, though neither is thought to have been directly involved in Sept. 11. Both the U.S. and Yemen have requested extradition, but the Justice Ministry said the men would likely be sent...
...KILLED. MARTHA MYERS, 57, WILLIAM KOEHN, 60 and KATHLEEN GARIETY, 53, U.S. doctor and administrators, respectively, who ran a Baptist mission hospital in a tiny town about 160 kilometers south of Yemen's capital, Sana; by a lone gunman described by Yemeni officials as an "Islamic extremist"; in Jibla, Yemen. A revered figure in the town, Myers and her staff treated some 40,000 patients a year...
...last week's evidence, he's right. Within a few days, the following things happened: Spanish and American forces detained and then released a cargo of North Korean Scud missiles hidden in a stateless vessel bound for Yemen. The shipment was legal, but given the tinderbox nature of Yemeni society, irresponsible. Then Pyongyang announced that it intended to restart work on nuclear reactors that had been closed down since a crisis with the U.S. in 1994; spent fuel from the reactors could be used to build nuclear bombs. One day later, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that recent satellite...
...reason Washington chose to intercept them. Although Yemen has allied closely with the U.S. in the wake of 9/11, it remains a hotbed of al-Qaeda activity. The weakness of its government and the influence of Islamist groups certainly raises a concern that equipment shipped to the Yemeni military could, in the long run, fall into the hands of terrorists. Yemen's backing of Iraq during the first Gulf War may also have left U.S. officials concerned at the fact that it was acquiring such weapons at a time of mounting tension in the Gulf. Such concerns might be amplified...
Resorting to America's own form of terrorism, as happened in the Yemeni desert, is reckless and will serve only to breed more terrorists. CHRIS E. ROACH Austin, Texas...