Bombing
continued from page 1A
said without elaboration that a
number of people had been de
tained for questioning; it was not
clear whether any were suspects.
The State Department issued a
worldwide alert, saying it was ex
tremely concerned about the possi
bility of violence against U.S. citi
zens and interests. Americans were
urged to maintain “a high level of
vigilance.”
In a parallel travel warning,
Americans were advised to defer all
travel to Israel, the West Bank and
Gaza, and those already there were
told to stay at home or get to a safe
location. Americans were warned
not to go to Yemen.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah
Saleh talked with Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright, pledged his co
operation in the investigation and
visited some of the injured who were
hospitalized locally. He insisted in a
CNN interview that his country did
not harbor “terrorist elements.”
It was the first attack targeting the
U.S. military in Yemen since the
Pentagon pulled out all 100 Ameri
can military personnel based there
in January 1993 after bombings out
side the U.S. Embassy and at hotels
where some Americans were stay
ing. U.S. intelligence has blamed
Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaida organ
ization for some of those bombings.
The USS Cole is a $1 billion guid
ed missile destroyer home-ported at
Norfolk, Va. It had sailed through
the Red Sea and was en route to the
Persian Gulf where it was to per
form maritime intercept operations
in support of the U.N. embargo
against Iraq. The ship has a crew of
about 350 people.
Navy medical teams were en
route to the scene Thursday to treat
those injured in the 5:15 a.m. EDT
explosion, Pentagon officials said.
U.S. aircraft capable of evacuating
the injured were also scheduled to
fly to Aden.
The incident was all the more
stunning given that U.S. forces in
the Middle East have been on a
heightened state of alert in recent
days and security plans for a port
visit like the USS Cole’s are drawn
in advance.
The Cole had just arrived in the
harbor and was scheduled to leave
in about four hours, officials said,
suggesting the attackers may have
known the ship’s schedule and the
procedures for a refueling stop.
Adm. Vern Clark, the chief of
naval operations, said he could not
fault the Cole’s crew for not prevent
ing the midday attack that apparent
ly was carried out by two men in a
small harbor craft that was helping
tie up the ship’s mooring lines at a
fueling facility in the middle of the
Aden harbor.
As a participant in normal harbor
operations, the small boat’s presence
did not raise suspicions, Clark said.
“I have no reason to think this
was anything but a senseless act of
terroiism,” Clark said.
After helping the Cole moor, the
small boat came alongside the war
ship and its occupants apparently
detonated a high-explosive bomb,
killing themselves in the process.
Some reports said the two men in
the boat stood at attention as the
bomb exploded, although Clark
said he could not verify such details
based on early information.
Clark displayed a Navy photo
graph of the damaged ship. The
jagged edges of the hole in the hull
protruded inward, suggesting the
explosive force came from outside
the ship at roughly the water level.
Women sailors were among the
casualties, Clark said, although
identities of the dead and injured
were not released pending notifica
tion of relatives.
Reaction
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daiwi, a sophomore journalism ma
jor originally from Kuwait.
In the past 48 hours, a violent con
flict has been heightening in the
Middle East, with three Israeli sol
diers killed by a Palestinian mob and
retaliations underway on both sides.
Agreeing with Al-Budawai, un
declared freshman Nadia Hasan
added that Islam is “about peace
and harmony.”
While many are disheartened by
the violence, few are surprised. Some
have even said that many in the Mid
dle East have never realistically be
lieved peace would come about.
“I was expecting trouble over
there,” Al-Budaiwi said.
Undeclared sophomore Michael
Robertson said that while he is
“very sad” about the situation, he is
not surprised.
Rabbi Tal Shachar of the Ahavas
Torah synagogue, Eugene's Ortho
dox Jewish congregation, used to
live in Israel and just recently
moved to Oregon. From his experi
ence, he said people in Israel are not
I
shocked by the explosion in vio
lence because it arises from pres
sures that have been building for a
long time.
“One of the reasons that people
are taking to the streets right now is
because of things that have hap
pened for years,” he said.
Graduate student Orlee Jacobi,
who is studying public policy and
In Israel today, there's
a national consensus...
that the peace process is
basically over.
Rabbi Tal Shachar
Ahavas Torah synagogue
management, spent six weeks in Is
rael. She said the media there un
derplayed the violence.
The violence continued even
through the peace process. A year
ago, Shachar said, one of his neigh
bors was kidnapped and beaten by a
Palestinian policeman. The inci
dent garnered only a one-time short
spot on the news.
“In general, there are a lot more
things going on than what is reported
because people wanted the whole
process to work,” Shachar said.
Even so, he said, there was never a
strong belief that peace would occur.
“In Israel today, there’s a national
consensus... that the peace process
is basically over,” Shachar said.
While the situation is complicat
ed, Al-Budawai raised another issue.
He said he thinks the U.S. govern
ment is very much on Israel’s side.
On the other side of the coin,
Robertson said he thought the gov
ernment has done a good job of re
maining neutral, especially in the
past few weeks.
Some members of the Jewish stu
dent community on campus have
decided to hold off on declaring for
mal reactions to the entire situation.
Senior Judaic studies and political
science major Jessica Elkan said that
because everything is currently
evolving, it is difficult to give an in
formed opinion at this point in time.
“As a Jewish student, I do not feel
that I can make an accurate re
sponse to what is going on over
there until more information is re
leased,” she said.
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