CIA Penetrates Extremist Islamic Groups [Archives:2000/51/Local News]

News reports have recently indicated that the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is involved in penetrating some extremist Islamic groups in a number of Arab countries including Yemen. In a press interview last month, President Saleh stated that the Israeli Intelligence Musad might have been involved in the USS Cole incident. James Bafti, Vice Chairman of the CIA said in a statement to Reuters last Wednesday that the USS Cole incident and the blasts of the two American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya by Islamic extremists, caused the Secret Division in the CIA to study operations under cover and undertake preventive measures against Islamic and extremist organizations acts. Yemen and the Arab authorities are now keeping the Islamic groups under surveillance.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh explained that the USS Cole suspects were Yemenis born in Saudi Arabia and that the boat was brought from Jizan into Hodeida before it had been taken to Aden to carry out the operation.

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