| February 5, 2006 | - Twenty-three people, 12 of them convicted Al Qaeda terrorists, escaped via a tunnel from a prison in Yemen. One of the escapees, Jamal Ahmed Badawi, had been sentenced to death for organizing the October 2000 attack on the destroyer U.S.S. Cole.
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CNN.com
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| December 29, 2005 | - A landslide in Yemen killed 30 people.
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BBC News
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| December 5, 2005 | - A frog-shaped baby was born dead in Yemen.
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The Yemen Times
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| July 22, 2005 | - Thirty-six people were killed in Yemen during riots over fuel prices.
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BBC News
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| May 16, 2005 | - The polio outbreak in Yemen was getting worse.
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Reuters
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| April 29, 2005 | - There was an outbreak of polio in Yemen.
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BBC News
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| March 11, 2005 | - The United States announced plans to reduce the number of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay by freeing some and sending others to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Yemen.
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The Guardian
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| November 23, 2004 | - A Yemeni FBI informant set himself on fire in front of the White House.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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| April 15, 2003 | -
Ten suspects in the bombing of the USS Cole escaped from a prison in Yemen.
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| January 7, 2003 | -
Three American Baptist missionaries were murdered by Islamic militants in Yemen.
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| December 17, 2002 | -
Two Spanish warships intercepted a shipment of Scud missiles from North Korea off the coast of Yemen; American forces confiscated the missiles but later had to give them back after the president of Yemen called Dick Cheney and complained.
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| November 12, 2002 | -
The CIA, using a Predator drone, assassinated an Al Qaeda leader and several of his companions in Yemen; it turned out that one of the men was an American citizen.
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| October 29, 2002 | -
The Yemeni government was holding about 40 sons of tribal leaders hostage to ensure the tribes' cooperation in the search for Al Qaeda members. “It is something ordinary in Yemen, a tradition,” said one sheikh.
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| September 17, 2002 | -
Five Yemeni men in Lackawanna, New York, were charged with being an Al Qaeda terrorist cell, and American forces in Pakistan captured Ramzi bin al-Shibh, an Al Qaeda operative who officials said was supposed to have been the “twentieth hijacker” on September 11.
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| March 5, 2002 | -
President Bush approved plans to send troops to Yemen as anti-terrorism advisers.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, the Philippines, Indonesia, and North Korea were also being mentioned as future targets.
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| February 27, 2001 | - Twenty-nine people were killed in post-election violence in Yemen; opposition parties called for new elections because of widespread irregularities.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Seventeen American sailors on board the destroyer Cole were killed when a dinghy loaded with explosives blew a hole in the ship as it prepared to refuel at the Yemeni port of Aden.
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