-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Yemen Arrests Nine in Plot Against U.S. NewsMax.com Wires Tuesday, June 19, 2001 WASHINGTON -- Authorities in Yemen have arrested nine suspected terrorists for allegedly plotting an attack against U.S. investigators who were investigating last fall's suicide bombing of the USS Cole, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The newspaper cited a senior U.S. official as saying the men were believed to be affiliated with the Islamic Army of Aden, a fundamentalist group linked to Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden. The official said the men were found with hand grenades, small arms and documents, including a map of the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, the capital, that indicated they were planning to attack Americans in Yemen. "There is a very real and credible threat specifically against those investigating the Cole bombing," FBI spokesman John Collingwood said. "Based upon what we know, we thought it prudent to remove our personnel rather than endanger both investigators and those U.S. officials around them." Kenneth Katzman, a Middle East analyst and terrorism expert at the Congressional Research Service, told The Post that whatever the group's links to bin Laden, it is clearly a "homegrown" offshoot of a radical Islamicist movement that has existed in Yemen for years. Meanwhile, CNN reported the U.S. Embassy in Yemen was a terrorist target in recent days and came close to being attacked. "We narrowly dodged a serious attack," said an official. He described the threat as "imminent, specific and credible." U.S. agents from the FBI and the Navy Criminal Investigative Service had been in Yemen since suicide bombers in a small boat pulled alongside the USS Cole in October as it refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden and detonated a massive bomb, killing 17 sailors and wounding 39 others aboard the destroyer. U.S. investigators have been trying to determine whether bin Laden is linked in any way to the Cole bombing but have yet to announce a definitive relationship. Bin Laden, a fugitive in the mountains of Afghanistan, has been indicted in New York for orchestrating the August 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
