Cika wannan jumla: Tsohon darektan CIA George Tenet ya shawo kan shugaban Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh ya yi aiki tare da CIA. Tenet ya aika da kayan aiki da masu horar da Sojoji na Musamman 100 don taimakawa Yemen ƙirƙirar ƙungiyar ta'addanci bayan mamayewar Afghanistan a 2001. Ya kuma samu izinin tuka jirage marasa matuka na Predator a saman Yemen. CIA ta kashe 'yan kungiyar Al Qaeda guda shida, ciki har da Abu Ali al-Harithi, wanda ake zargi da shiryawa
2000 harin da aka kai kan USS "Cole", tare da irin wannan jirgi mara matuki, wanda aka aiko daga sansanin sojin Faransa a Djibouti.