America certainly took careful notes: the USS Cole, a guided-missile destroyer, visited Estonia.
Now, it seems the FBI has switched its attention to links between the USS Cole and the September 11 attacks.
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.
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.
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.
It is made all the more bizarre by the Attorney General's decision, also announced on Friday, November 13th, that perpetrators of the attack on the USS Cole would be tried before military commissions.
Other reports say one of the men had been seen at a meeting in Malaysia with people suspected of being oinvolved in the attack on the USS Cole warship, which was bombed in Yemen last year, killing 17 US servicemen.
These include the millennium-bombing plot targeting the Los Angeles airport, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole while it was in port in Aden, Yemen, and the nearly simultaneous bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.
Hamdan testified he had wanted to settle in his native country, Yemen, but after the attack in 2000 by an explosives-laden motorboat on the USS Cole in Yemen's Gulf of Aden, which killed 17 American sailors, he and his wife left the country.
The extra money will be used to pay for higher energy and health care costs for the military, as well repair to the USS Cole and a salvage mission for the Japanese fishing trawler, which was accidentally struck and sunk by a U.S. submarine.
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