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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:*
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Yemen's foreign minister
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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
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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
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