Jack Linthicum wrote: Yemen has a different view of the Cole event than we do, but then the Bush people want it to be a Clinton problem, something that might get interesting if Hillary wins the Presidency. It is difficult to understand how the delay and scapegoating is going to look good after the present bunch is out of office. This is not surprising, Yemenis are Arabs.

Probe of USS Cole Bombing Unravels Plotters Freed in Yemen; U.S. Efforts Frustrated By Craig Whitlock Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, May 4, 2008; A01 ADEN, Yemen -- Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in the attack have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials