SANAA, Yemen, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Yemen has given the United States evidence linking Osama bin Laden's al Qaida network to the attack on the USS Cole last year, Yemeni officials said Monday.
The sources told United Press International that information given to Washington was "related to bin Laden's involvement in the USS Cole bombing."
The suicide attack in October 2000 in the Yemeni port of Aden killed 17 U.S. sailors.
The sources said the information served the "ongoing investigation, linking bin Laden and the USS Cole."
The revelations comes as Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh was to visit Washington this week. The two countries were expected to sign a security agreement that would allow the United States to expand its investigation into the attack on the USS Cole.
Yemeni authorities arrested six people in connection with the attack.
Bin Laden is also the target of the ongoing U.S. operation in Afghanistan. Washington says he is behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that killed more than 3,000 people, and is trying to apprehend him.
