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...that he and other plotters were given for the Bali operation by Riduan Isamuddin, J.I.'s operations chief also known as Hambali, may have originally come from bin Laden. Bali investigators are also looking into the possibility that a hardened al-Qaeda operative named Syafullah--a Yemeni who entered Indonesia on a fake U.S. visa--may have been in charge of mixing the chemicals used in the bombs. Mukhlas says that he, Hambali (who is still on the lam) and other J.I. leaders maintained close ties with al-Qaeda from the late 1980s on, and the official police summary...
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 100 miles south of Yemen's capital, Sana'a; by a lone gunman described by Yemeni officials as an "Islamic extremist"; in Jibla, Yemen. Myers, a revered figure in the town, and her staff treated some 40,000 patients a year...
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...