Al-Badawi identified his contact as Mohammed Omar al-Harazi, who used the aliases "Abu al-Mohsin" and "Abu al-Hasan," the sources tolf the AP. Al-Harazi remains at-large, they added.
Al-Harazi is a Saudi citizen born to a Yemeni family in the rugged Haraz mountain region west of San'a, the capital.
The Afghan connection is one of the tenuous links Yemeni investigators have found between the group involved in the Cole attack and America's No. 1 terror suspect, Osama bin Laden, who also fought in Afghanistan.
U.S. law enforcement officials have said previously that several threads link the suspects now held by the Yemenis to the bin Laden organization.
Maybe the New York Times should spend some time using Google or reading the news instead of COUNTING VOTES from the last PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION where AL GORE LOST!
Read the article.
Fascinating stuff on the situation in Yemen prior to the Cole bombing.
Aggravating stuff about the "security arrangements" our embassy and CentCom had agreed to. And what about a botched attempt on the USS Sullivans in Aden Harbor PRIOR to the bombing of the Cole.
I guess our "security" friends felt no need to share that with us based on our arrangement with them. Or worse...we knew and didn't/wouldn't do anything about it.