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Article: Yemen: No Bin Laden-Cole Link
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- January 31, 2001
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01-31-2001
Yemen: No Bin Laden-Cole Link
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Yemen has no evidence that Osama bin Laden, the United States' most-wanted terror suspect, is linked to the bombing of the USS Cole, Yemen's interior minister was quoted as saying Wednesday.
U.S. and Yemeni officials have said they suspect bin Laden is linked to the Oct. 12 bombing that killed 17 sailors while the destroyer refueled in Aden harbor. But no direct links to bin Laden are known to have been made.
``Investigations have not so far proved, either to us or to the Americans, any link between Osama bin Laden and the Cole bombing,'' Interior Minister Hussein Mohammed Arab said in remarks published ...