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Senate Armed Services Committee to Begin New Cole Inquiry

Aired October 25, 2000 - 9:01 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: We're going to start this morning with the latest on the USS Cole investigation. At this hour, the Senate Armed Services Committee begins new inquiries into the bombing that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen.

CNN's Carl Rochelle joins us. He is live now from the Pentagon.

Carl, good morning.

CARL ROCHELLE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Daryn.

Well, this is the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that was postponed last week because the defense department of the personnel begged for more time, said they were not quite ready to go in and testify. So, this is a continuation of that. We will be hearing from Under Secretary of Defense Walt Slocum. Among the others, Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Vernon Clark and General Tommy Franks who heads Central Command, which was in charge of that particular theater where the Cole was. Part of the hearing will be open but part of it also will be behind closed doors and Senators will shut those doors to take some classified-type testimony from the witnesses.

Meanwhile, U.S. forces in Aden, in Yemen, where the Cole is based, at Bahrain and at Qatar in the Persian Gulf are at Threat Condition Delta. That is the highest state of alert. They have been that way since the weekend. Pentagon spokesman, Rear Admiral Craig Quigley explains what it means to be at the Condition Delta.

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REAR ADM. CRAIG QUIGLEY, PENTAGON SPOKESMAN: They are increasingly restrictive in the movement of people, in the checking of visitors, in the checking of vehicles, in the off-set of allowed parking next to facilities, buildings and the like.

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ROCHELLE: U.S. Officials say the number of terrorist threats against U.S. interests have increased significantly since the bombing of the Cole on October 12th. Including in that, a number of embassies around the world. The embassy in Jakarta was closed, Tuesday, yesterday, because of a specific threat over the weekend. The embassy at Doha in Qatar was closed because of a specific threat there. These officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity say the increase in threats is not limited to the Middle East and the Persian Gulf area, but also constitutes threats in Latin America, in Europe, and in Asia -- Daryn.

KAGAN: Carl Rochelle at Pentagon, thank you very much.

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