The most important question in my mind is this:
Were the hijackers of the airline up the coast in Jeddah accomplices who were fleeing after the bombing of the USS Cole?
October 14 2000 Two Saudi Arabian Al Qaeda operatives hijack a Saudi Airlines Boeing 777 bound from Jeddah to London and fly it to Baghdad. They are given asylum by SADDAM HUSSEIN’s government.
On 12 October 2000, while under the command of Commander Kirk Lippold, the Cole was attacked from a small boat by Al-Qaida[citation needed] suicide bombers, while she was harbored in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen sailors were killed and 39 were injured. The U.S. government offered a reward of up to US $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of those persons who committed or aided in the attack on Cole. On 4 November 2002, Ali Qaed Sinan al-Harthi, who is believed to have planned the attack, was killed by the CIA using an AGM-114 Hellfire missile launched from an MQ-1 Predator unmanned drone.
Thanks for the reminder!