Bomb Threat Made Against Cole Team
Security was beefed up around a hotel in Aden on Thursday after a bomb threat targeted Americans staying there who are investigating the attack on the U.S. guided missile destroyer Cole.
Yemeni security officials said the bomb threat by an unknown caller came about midnight. Yemeni and U.S. security officials held an emergency meeting before dawn. They surrounded the hotel with military vehicles mounted with machine guns and prevented civilian traffic from getting within 500 yards of the site.
Yemeni officials have said that about 270 Americans, including FBI investigators, were in Aden. Some were staying at the hotel, while others remained aboard the Cole. About 80 FBI evidence technicians had returned home by Thursday, said a federal law enforcement official in Washington.
The Oct. 12 attack on the Cole killed 17 U.S. sailors and wounded 39.
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