The suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen is violent evidence of that fact.
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Well, we're also finding links between these groups, these people, to the bombing of the USS Cole.
Al-Nashiri is accused of plotting the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, which left 17 U.S. sailors dead.
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America certainly took careful notes: the USS Cole, a guided-missile destroyer, visited Estonia.
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in the harbor of Aden, Yemen.
Militants in a raft filled with explosives killed 17 American sailors when they rammed a Navy destroyer, the USS Cole.
Now, it seems the FBI has switched its attention to links between the USS Cole and the September 11 attacks.
Since the attack on the USS Cole, America has sought Yemeni help to hunt down suspected terrorists, but with little effect.
That is, a month after the terror bombing of the USS Cole, which had taken the lives of 17 U.S. sailors.
This is the 10th anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole.
The attacks of Sept. 11, on the USS Cole and East African U.S. embassies prove otherwise, as they all predate detention operations there.
The guided missile destroyer USS Cole was subjected to a terrorist attack in October 2000, during a brief fuel stop in Aden, Yemen.
He has also been indicted for the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa and the attacks on the USS Cole in October 2000.
Another will face a military court, accused of the bombing of a navy ship, the USS Cole, in 2000 in the port of Aden, in Yemen.
On the other hand, those terrorists who bombed the USS Cole in 2000 would be tried before a military commission because the target was military in nature.
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Osama bin Laden declared war on America -- and then came the attacks -- the first World Trade Center, the embassies, the USS Cole, hundreds dead, thousands injured.
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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.
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.
Another agent allegedly told Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, that his mother would be sexually assaulted in front of him.
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.
Ships fitted with such devices would never be subject to the sort of attack that damaged USS Cole in 2000, when an al-Qaeda boat loaded with explosives rammed it.
Some experts believe that the recent spate of virulent bugs was a terrorist warm-up for much worse to come, just as the attack on the USS Cole preceded Sept. 11.
Indeed terrorists ranging from those behind the thwarted 1993 New York City landmark bomb plot to the operatives behind the 2001 bombing of the USS Cole can testify to that.
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.
While at the FBI, Soufan was involved with investigations of sensitive international terrorism cases, including the East Africa bombings, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole and the September 11 attacks.
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"At best, he manipulated the families, " Kirk Lippold, commanding officer of the USS Cole at the time of the attack and the leader of the Cole families group, told me recently.
America's earlier hopes to revive Aden as a useful refuelling port exploded when al-Qaeda, possibly backed by a member of President Ali Saleh's advisory council, bombed the USS Cole in October 2000.
Similarly, the Yemenis have been described as exhibiting unprecedented willingness to cooperate in counter-terrorist operations on their soil including arresting individuals it says are implicated in the attack on the USS Cole.
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The U.S. official confirmed the presence of FBI agents in San'a, who stayed behind to continue investigations into the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden.
The attack--like the assault on the USS Cole in a Yemeni port--was scheduled to take place as the two aircraft carriers would have readied to moor at NATO's Rota navy base near Cadiz.
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