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Column: Ex-FBI Agent Says U.S. Must Close Case on USS Cole
Ali H. Soufan was an F.B.I. special agent from 1997 to 2005. By ALI H. SOUFAN New York Times Op-Ed TEN years ago, Qaeda terrorists blew a hole in the side of the Navy destroyer Cole in Yemen, killing 17 sailors. Yet the attack’s mastermind still hasn’t been prosecuted, and many of the men tried…