Some experts believe the recent spate of virulent bugs was a terrorist warm-up for much worse to come, just as the U.S.S. Cole attack preceded Sept. 11.
Now, this point may seem unremarkable, but think back to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and to the attacks on Khobar Towers in 1996, on the U.S. East African embassies in '98, on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in 2000.
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Seventeen U.S. sailors died in a terrorist attack on the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen 13 months ago that U.S. officials suspect may have been connected with al Qaeda.
The alert was sufficiently serious to cause the U.S. Embassy to be closed, but the Cole was never alerted.
The attacks of Sept. 11, on the USS Cole and East African U.S. embassies prove otherwise, as they all predate detention operations there.
Iryani also said that Yemen was very close to signing a memorandum of understanding with U.S. law enforcement officials regarding cooperation on the Cole investigation.
Al-Nashiri is accused of plotting the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, which left 17 U.S. sailors dead.
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He was the only one launching these 'spectacular' attacks against the U.S. that we had seen previously with the USS Cole and the embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
Osama bin Laden said many times that he saw the weak U.S. response to Somalia and the Khobar Towers and USS Cole bombings as evidence that we lacked the will for a long fight.
Also there was Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf Al-Hazmi who crashed a plane into the Pentagon on September 11, and Tawfiq bin Attash Khallad, whom the U.S. calls the mastermind in the bombing of the USS Cole in Oct 2000.
Al Qaeda is the group headed by bin Laden -- living under Taliban protection in Afghanistan -- and has been linked by the United States to the September 11 attacks, the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya and the USS Cole attack last year in Yemen.
Of course the Cole was an unprecedented attack, the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa were also unprecedented.
There are questions over whether Cole can get a work visa in the U.S. due to a previous assault conviction.
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Yemen has long been considered an al Qaeda safe haven, from the attack on the USS Cole in 2000 to the attack on the U.S. Embassy last year.
Moreover, the government of Sudan was found liable by a US federal judge in the deaths of 17 U.S. Navy sailors in the Al Qaeda terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Aden Harbor in 2000.
Also Wednesday, Yemen's prime minister denied reports in the Yemen Times and The Washington Post that Yemeni investigators had evidence linking the two suspects who died in the attack on the Cole to the 1998 truck bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa.
U.S. authorities say Hakken kidnapped his sons, 4-year-old Cole and 2-year-old Chase, from his mother-in-law's house north of Tampa.
That is, a month after the terror bombing of the USS Cole, which had taken the lives of 17 U.S. sailors.
He supervised on-site investigations of the bombing by terrorists of the USS Cole in Yemen last year, and the 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The CIA asked Malaysia's Special Branch for surveillance work of a key al Qaeda meeting, which U.S. officials now say was one of the planning sessions for the attacks on September 11 and the USS Cole.
Buckle up for beauty and some fresh pop tunes from the UK. British papers are reporting the UK sweetheart Cole is being offered a mega opportunity by the music svengali to join him in the U.S. on Fox as a judge on the panel of his new singing competition X Factor.
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