(Washington Post) - A U.S. Navy investigator who examined a French supertanker crippled by an explosion off the coast of Yemen on Sunday found the damage consistent with that of the USS Cole, which was attacked by suicide bombers two years ago in the port of Aden, an attack that has been blamed on al Qaeda. On Monday a U.S. Marine on a training exercise in Kuwait was killed during an attack by two gunmen whom Kuwaiti and U.S. officials have linked to al Qaeda. On Tuesday, the al-Jazeera network broadcast a voice recording of Ayman Zawahiri, the second-ranking al Qaeda leader, in which he threatened continued attacks on "America and its allies." The U.S. intelligence community is concerned that al Qaeda's leadership structure remains at least partially intact and is reorganized to carry out additional assaults against the United States and other Western countries.
2002-10-10 00:00:00Full ArticleBACK Visit the Daily Alert Archive