91.   Yemeni officials had at first rejected any suggestion their own citizens could have been involved in an attack on an ally.

92.   Yemeni officials had told the German Embassy that the kidnappers signed an agreement Monday night to release the hostages but later changed their minds.

93.   Yemeni officials have said that they were members of the militant Islamic Jihad.

94.   Yemeni officials have said they have no evidence personally linking bin Laden, an exiled Saudi millionaire, to the bombing of the U.S. Navy destroyer.

95.   Yemeni officials insist the soldiers intervened only after the kidnappers began executing hostages.

96.   Yemeni officials said the kidnappers demanded the release of two Islamic Jihad leaders and said they were retaliating for the recent U.S. and British airstrikes on Iraq.

97.   Yemeni officials said their forces killed three of the kidnappers and captured three others.

98.   Yemeni officials said transcripts of interrogations were sent to U.S. investigators, who posed questions to Yemenis, then followed up.

99.   Yemeni officials would not say if any ransom was paid.

100.   Yemeni official say they are questioning Afghan veterans in the Cole bombing.