U.S.: Terrorists may be
to blame in Yemen blast
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - In a sinister
slip through Navy security, sui
cide bombers in a small boat tore
a gaping hole in a U.S. warship
Thursday at a refueling stop in a
Yemeni harbor on the Arabian
Peninsula, U.S. officials say. The
blast killed six members of the
crew, injured 35 and left 11 miss
ing.
The crippled ship was tilting
slightly in the harbor at Aden,
Yemen, but the Navy said it was
not in danger of sinking.
No one has claimed responsi
bility, Defense Secretary William
Cohen told a Pentagon news con
ference.
President Clinton said the •
attack on the USS Cole, one of the
world’s most advanced warships,
appeared to be an act of terror
ism, the worst against the U.S.
military since the bombing of an
Air Force barracks in Saudi
Arabia in 1996 that killed 19
troops.
“We will find out who was •
responsible and hold them
accountable,” Clinton pledged.
He dispatched to Yemen
investigative teams from the FBI,
the State Department and the
Pentagon. Clinton also ordered a
heightened state of alert for all
U.S. military installations around
theworid.
After the attack, ambulances
rushed to the port, and
Americans working with Yemeni
authorities cordoned off the area.
Yemeni police sources said with
out elaboration that a number of
people had been detained for
questioning; it was not clear
whether any were suspects.
The State Department issued
a worldwide alert, saying it was
extremely concerned about the
possibility of violence against
U.S. citizens and interests.
Americans were urged to main
tain “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
“We will find out who was responsible and hold
them accountable
Bill Clinton
president
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 coopera
tion in the investigation and visit- ,
ed some of the injured who were
hospitalized locally. He insisted
in a CNN interview that his coun
try did not harbor "terrorist ele
ments” and said, “I don’t think it's
a terrorist attack."
The Pentagon said it was con
tacting families and would not
release victims' names until
Friday. But the parents of sailor
Craig Wibberley, 19, of
Williamsport, Md., confirmed
Thursday night that their son was
killed in the bombing, according
to The Herald-Mail of
Hagerstown, Md.
It was the first attack targeting
the U.S. military in Yemen since
the Pentagon pulled out all 100
American military personnel
based there in January 1993 after
bombings outside the U.S.
Embassy and at hotels where
some Americans were staying.
U.S. intelligence has blamed
Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaida
organization for some of those
bombings.
The Cole is a $1 billion guided
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
perform 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 capa
ble 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 Cole’s are drawn up
in advance.
The Cole had just arrived in
the harbor and was scheduled to
leave in about four hours, offi
cials said, suggesting the attack
ers may have known the ship’s
schedule and the procedures for
a refueling stop.
Adm. Vem Clark, the chief of
naval operations, said he could
not fault the Cole’s crew for not
preventing the midday attack
that apparently 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 sus
picions, Clark said.
UI have no reason to think this
was anything but a senseless act
of terrorism,” Clark said.
After helping the Cole moor,
the small boat came alongside
the warship and apparently deto
nated 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 informa
tion.
The explosion ripped a hole
20 feet high and 40 feet wide in
the midsection of the ship, flood
ing the main engine compart
ment. Clark said the flooding was
brought under control, and the
ship was not in danger of sinking.
Memorial tells story of bombing
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OKLAHOMA CITY - The sounds of pounding
hammers and buzzing saws fill the air at the old
Journal Record building.
Workers are finishing the Oklahoma City
National Memorial Center, which will lead visitors
through a timeline of events surrounding the April
19,1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building. The bombing killed 168 people and
injured more than 500.
"It tells a very powerful and difficult story, but I
think we’re telling it with a great deal of sensitivity
and grace,” said Bob Johnson, chairman of the
memorial trust
“We're telling it strong enough so people will
always remember what happened here.”
Although many of the walls are bare, Johnson
■ said the museum is on track for its Feb. 19 opening.
The museum tour encompasses 10 chapters of
the timeline since the bombing.
Each chapter is labeled with a description of
the feeling organizers hope to impart to visitors -
words like chaos, impact, remembrance and hope.
About 400 photos of the Murrah building, die
Journal Record building and scenes from the res
cue effort will be scattered throughout the muse
um.
So too will artifacts from the rescue efforts, like
a firefighter's protective coat and a woman’s shoe
and tattered dress taken from the area.
The chaos room will be built a little off kilter to
give the impression of the moment just after the
bombing, Johnson said.
Dented file cabinets and broken light fixtures
will be placed in the room.
A portion of the Journal Record building will be
preserved as it was after the bombing to show the
impact.
Johnson said he hoped people would experi
ence some of the feelings of shock, chaos and fear
caused by the bombing. But he also wants the
museum to reflect the outpouring of support that
came in the days afterward.
One room will be wallpapered with greeting
cards sent from people all across the country, and
the path leading to the children’s area will be paved
with pennies representing fund-raising efforts of
elementary school students.
"We want people to be inspired when they
leave this museum knowing that a lot of good
came out of a horrible thing,” he said.
Chinese writer gets Nobel prize
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGNOLET, France - Gao
Xingjian burned his early writ
ings to save himself from com
munist zealots, was denounced
by his own wife and eventually
went into exile. On Thursday,
the 60-year-old survivor of
China’s upheaval and oppres
sion became its first Nobel Prize
laureate for literature.
The Swedish Academy cited
the novelist and playwright for
the "bitter insights and linguis
tic ingenuity” in his writings
about the “struggle for individu
ality in mass culture.”
Gao, “very, very surprised” at
the honor, declared writing to
have been his salvation, even
during Mao Tse-tung's brutal
1966-76 Cultural Revolution,
when intellectuals were silenced
and he had to burn “kilos and
kilos” of his writings lest they fall
into the wrong hands.
“In China, I could not trust
anyone, not even my family. The
atmosphere was so poisoned,
people were so brainwashed
that even someone from your
own family could turn you in,"
he told The Associated Press.
That actually happened,
according to his friend and fel
low Chinese exile, poet Bei Ling.
“His wife told people from the
government that he had been
writing literary things at home,
and writing literature then was
very dangerous,” said Bei. Gao
did not go into specifics in the
interview, but it was not uncom
mon during the Cultural
Revolution for people, driven to
extremes to save themselves, to
divorce loved ones targeted by
the zealots.
Gao went on to become a
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leading cultural figure in China
but fled in 1987 after one of his
plays was banned and he was
put under police surveillance.
After the 1989 blood bath at
Tiananmen Square in Beijing,
he wrote “Fugitives,” set against
the background of the slayings.
The Communist regime
declared him “person^ non
grata” and banned his works.
Gao's novel, “Soul
Mountain,” a complex narrative
based on his travels in China,
was published in English trans
lation last year and was singled
out by the Swedish Academy as
"one of those singular literary
creations that seem impossible
to compare with anything but
themselves.”
Gao has lived in France for
12
years, speaks flawless
French and holds French citi
zenship. He is an authority oh
modem French drama but leads
a humble, spartan life. After the
Nobel announcement, he
received visitors at his two-room
apartment in a blue-collar Paris
suburb wearing a sweat shirt
and slippers.
Gao said he started keeping
"When you use words,,
you’re able to keep
your mind alive.”
Gao Xingjian
China’s first Nobel literature
prize winner
a diary when he was 8 and now
writes or paints up to 16 hours a
day on a glass table, the only fur
niture in the room.
“Writing eases my suffer
ing,” he said. “When you use
words, you’re able to keep your
mind alive. Writing is my way of
reaffirming my own existence.”
Having survived the Cultural
Revolution, he saw his dramas
fall victim in the 1980s to a gov
ernment campaign against what
it called “spiritual pollution.”
“Bus Stop" (1983) and “The
Other Shore” (1986) were
banned. After leaving China he
wrote “Between Life and Death”
(1991), and “Weekend Quartet”
(1995) which critics say grace
fully combines poetry, comedy
and tragedy to portray life’s grim
realities.
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