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Petr THE BATTALION ■ I * Itt# Yemen foreign minister sa| U.S. helps make its terrori 1 SAN’A, Yemen (AP) — The United States itself bears some re sponsibility for the attack on the USS Cole because it helped create the ter rorists who now consider America their worst enemy, Yemen’s foreign minister said Monday. Speaking in an interview with the Associated Press, Foreign Minister Abdulkader Bajammal also said Yemen wants to work closely with the United States to combat terrorism. “The operation was not Yemeni, not pure Yemeni,” Bajammal said. “It is a network involving so many countries. Terrorism has no nation.” No one has yet been charged in the Oct. 12 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 sailors and wounded 39. Asked if any indict ments were forthcoming, Bajammal said he had no information, noting it was not his area of responsibility. Bajammal said if any Yemenis are found to have been involved, they may have simply been corrupt bu reaucrats who provided logistical help in exchange for “a little baksheesh,” — or payoffs — not out of ideology. “We are a victim of terrorism, not a source of terrorism,” Bajammal added. The attack on the Cole followed anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli protests in Yemen and across an Arab world en raged violence in Palestinian ar eas. Nearly 300 people have been killed in Israeli-Palestinian clashes since September. The roots of anti-American ter rorism are older and deeper, running back to the 1980s when one of the last-gasp Cold War battles was waged in the rugged mo. valleys of Afghanistan. ‘i : Bajammal said that beT investigation was coiv.rl could not comment on the:* t v that Yemeni or other AkB “The operation was not Yemeni, not pure Yemeni. It is a network in volving so many conn tries. Terror ism has no na tion. " — Abdulkader Bejammal Yemen's foreign minister of the Afghan war werei| the Cole attack. He said, “Terrorismdi| pear by accident. It is at phenomenon. Just astk| Union created a man I national terrorist) Carlos,j side created theAfgh have inherited the ren Cold War.” In Washington, aMwill cial said the Clinton; rejects any suggestion tti ed States is somehow respr the Cole attack. He spoken tion of anonymity. Yemen, whose centnlj ment is struggling toexpaM ity over tribal areas, hastag haven for Muslim extra eluding groups linkedtoS dent Osama bin Laden.ax the Afghan war who today J ca’s No. I terrorist suspectg War on drugs moves to Coloml U.S.-backed plan promises government funds to cocagm who destroy crop; many are skeptical that promises will bd BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Yanking a coca bush from the ground and planting a magnolia tree in its place, officials kicked off an ambitious program to eradicate drug crops in the heart of Colombia’s co caine-producing region. During the weekend ceremony in southern Colombia’s Putumayo province, about 700 peas ant farmers agreed to de stroy their coca plots in re turn for government aid to adopt alternative, and le gal, livelihoods. The crop-substitution program is the “soft side” of a U.S.-backed military push into the region, in which re maining coca fields will be seized by government troops and destroyed by aer ial fumigation. The pact was signed Saturday in the vil lage of Santa Ana and will be offered to other farmers in Putumayo in the coming months. For the coca growers, the deal to wipe out their own crops sounds good on paper. Many are skeptical the promises will become reality. And there is little likelihood the initiative will sharply reduce the scale of the upcoming mil itary offensive. In return for seeds, tech nical assistance, better roads and electricity, com munities living off coca pledge to instead be grow ing food crops and tending chicken coops within a year. Later, officials say, they will invite farmers into more lucrative long term projects such as cat tle-raising, fish farms and rubber plantations. The government says the alternative develop- . ment program is backed by nearly $250 million in gov ernment aid, in addition to tens of millions of dollars in expected international funding. These so-called pro grams face a myriad of obstacles. Foremost is se curity. Colombia’s largest left ist guerrilla army, the Rev olutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, controls much of rural Pu tumayo and earns huge profits by protecting the cocaine-producing planta tions and “taxing” the growers. Battling more than 2,000 FARC fighters for control of Putumayo and profits from its lucrative co caine trade are at least 600 members of a right-wing paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or The FARC vA-l ports alternative If ment over forceii eradication, I to be seen wti euerrillas will M with plans aimedL| nating one off sources of income! A $1.3 t package include^ of combat helico) U.S. special forcesi for 3,000 Colomf troops given the ving the armed -1 from the coca fields The United Statfj is pledging morew million for altentf’ : velopment program ever White Houiil czar Barry McCall last week thatsud| grams cannot sue® til Colombia’s pdf ‘ military “have estaf security on thegrof for Spring interviewing at Career Cenf Take a study break and come in to get your resume reviewed! Online registration will be available over the winter break. 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