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...Also captured was Husam al Yemeni, whom a U.S. official in Iraq says was supplying money to the anti-American resistance and commanding attacks against coalition forces. Yemeni, says another U.S. intelligence source, is "an al-Ansar guy" and an aide to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi...
...party in Baghdad, for instance, killed eight and left 35 injured. A senior Iraqi source tells TIME that the suicide bombings appear to be carried out by foreigners, not by Saddam loyalists. From the remains of such bombers, the source says, authorities have determined that most were Yemeni, some were Syrian, and a few Saudi Arabian...
Born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, al-Aulaqi studied engineering at Colorado State University. Friends describe him as warm and adamantly nonviolent. But while living in San Diego he met with an ally of an Egyptian cleric imprisoned for his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center attack. The FBI investigated, closing the probe in March 2000. Two months earlier, two hijackers moved to the area. Al-Aulaqi, according to the joint inquiry, held "closed-door meetings" with them. When he moved to Virginia in early 2001, two hijackers followed. After 9/11, al-Aulaqi told the A.P. he didn...
...agents posted to San'a are forging bonds with Yemeni security officials in the hope of gaining far greater access to telephone records, prisoner interrogations and other intelligence about Yemeni al-Qaeda operatives that have been involved in a series of major terrorist incidents, including the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor; last year's attacks on a French tanker off Yemen's coast and an Israeli tourist hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; and the May 12 bombing of Western residential compounds in Riyadh...
...After staying in Kuala Lumpur from Jan. 5 2000 to Jan. 8, 2001, Al Midhar and Al Hazmi traveled to Southeast Asia with Walid Ba'Attash, aka Khallad, a Yemeni ethnic with Saudi citizenship who has been identified as the organizer of the USS Cole bombing in October 2000. Then Al Midhar and Al Hazmi flew to Los Angeles, arriving Jan. 15, 2001, and made their way to San Diego, where they settled into an apartment and began studying aviation and English. Al Midhar flew to Saudi Arabia on June 10, 2000, where, according to FBI officials, he organized...