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On the Tenth Anniversary of the Cole Attack

Three thoughts concerning al Qaeda's attack on the USS Cole and the events that followed.

2:22 PM, Oct 12, 2010 • By THOMAS JOSCELYN

Today is the tenth anniversary of al Qaeda’s October 12, 2000 attack on the USS Cole. Three thoughts come immediately to mind.

The USS Cole ten years later.

Oct 18, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 05 • By THOMAS DONNELLY

Before there was 9/11, there was 10/12. A decade ago this week, al Qaeda operatives staged a spectacular suicide attack on the USS Cole while it was refueling in Aden, Yemen. The terrorists puttered up to the destroyer’s port side, waving at the U.S. sailors working on deck. Once aside the Cole, the two assailants shaped a 1,000-pound charge to the ship’s hull. On the other side of the hull was the galley, where many of the crew were lining up for lunch.

It is now an exporter, if not a sponsor, of terrorism.

7:55 PM, Jan 14, 2010 • By STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

Anybody curious about how and why Yemen became a place where al Qaeda and other jihadist groups operate with apparent impunity--while its government claims to be a reliable ally of the United States--should simply look at a map of the Middle East. Throughout its history Yemen has been different from the rest of its neighbors. It is, in truth, a local pivot--but a permanently wobbling one. It now faces an existential threat, as radicals from within in its borders and around its neighborhood threaten to destroy it, with the apparent complicity of--or at least, a dangerous passivity on the part of--its rulers. In this it resembles that other strategic hub and Islamist target, Pakistan.

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