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To: calgal who wrote (2870)	11/8/2002 9:39:36 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 8683

One U.S. Citizen Among Dead al Qaeda Suspects-Yemen November 07, 2002 03:46 PM ET ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - One of six al Qaeda suspects killed in a car blast in Yemen during the weekend was a U.S. national and all were "dangerous" members of the extremist network, a Yemeni official said on Thursday. The six were killed when their car exploded in the eastern Marib province on Sunday. Yemeni authorities refused to comment on the cause of the blast -- which according to U.S. officials was a rocket from an unmanned CIA drone. One of the dead, Qaed Senyan al-Harthi, also known as Abu Ali, was a suspect in the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in a Yemeni port, which killed 17 U.S. sailors. "Investigations by Yemeni authorities found that Harthi was accompanied by five dangerous members of the al Qaeda network who were not ordinary passengers," the official told Reuters. He said one of the six, identified by a government newspaper as Ahmed Hijazi, was a U.S. national, but it was not clear whether he was of Yemeni origin. In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the United States had seen the name but did not have enough information to determine whether he was an American. The Yemeni official said Yemeni authorities found personal documents, weapons and satellite telecommunication devices in the shattered car. The weekly government September 26 newspaper said the group had taken part in "planning and executing acts of sabotage that harmed Yemeni national interests. "The six were involved in the attack on the USS Cole in Aden (harbor) in 2000," the paper added. Washington blames Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network for the Cole attack. The Saudi-born militant, whose ancestral home is Yemen, is also blamed for last year's September 11 attacks on the United States. September 26 quoted an interior ministry official as saying the Yemeni coastguard would soon receive five boats from the United States to help patrol ports. A second batch of nine will follow later, the official said. The impoverished Arab country vowed its ports will open fire at boats approaching vessels without authorization. A French-flagged supertanker was attacked last month -- almost exactly two years after the attack on the Cole. U.S. military trainers were sent this year to advise Yemeni troops on catching al Qaeda fighters believed to be in hiding. September 26 said the United States would set up a coastguard operations room in Aden and train some 160 Yemenis. Yemen, eager to shake off its image as a haven for Muslim militants, says it has detained 85 people in its hunt for suspected members of al Qaeda and other militant groups. reuters.com