Yemen Said to Attack Suspected Bin Laden Supporters. The government of Yemen demanded that tribespeople sheltering suspected al Qaeda members turn them over and attacked their village with helicopter gunships when they refused. Dubya had apparently asked Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to hand over the suspects during the latter’s recent state visit to Washington. New York Times Yemen is reputed to be a terrorist haven in whose port, Aden, the USS Cole was bombed last year. As one of the poorest of the poor nations, it would be easy (especially after demonstrating our resolve to bomb regimes harboring terrorists even further back into the Stone Age than they already are) to make the Yemeni regime an offer it can’t refuse.