Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Oktoba 2000, ma'aikatan Amurka goma sha bakwai sun mutu bayan harin kunar bakin wake a kan jirgin ruwan Amurka "USS Cole"
a Aden wanda daga baya aka zargi a kan al-Qaeda. Bayan hare-haren 11 ga Satumba a Amurka, Shugaba Saleh ya tabbatar wa Shugaban Amurka George W. Bush cewa Yemen abokin tarayya ne a Yaƙin ta'addanci. A shekara ta 2001, an yi tashin hankali game da zaben raba gardama wanda a bayyane yake ya goyi bayan fadada mulkin Saleh da iko.