Cole was sent to refuel at Yemen because the State Department needed the Navy to show the flag. Due to SD’s normal incompetence, they failed to pass on to the ship several indicators that the local franchise of AQ was more active.
That is above and beyond the problem of having too few logistics force ships.
Yea I remember they sat n the message. One former Freeper named Sneakypete said it best years ago. Foreign Intel needs to be taken out of the SD and put under the sole supervision and coordination of the Pentagon. A good number of the Boo Boo's terrorist have been able to accomplish were because Intel was either ignored, not passed along to other need to knows, or the threat was not seen in diplomatic sense but was a clear threat military wise. State Department needs an enema and it's functions greatly reduced.