European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 stars and Siri p is wednesday March 21 2007 Detainee admits to uss Cole bombing plot by Pauline Jelinek the associated press Washington Waleed Mohammed bin attach Long suspected of plotting the bombing of the uss Cole confessed to plan Ning the attack during a hearing at Guantanamo Bay Cuba according to a Pentagon transcript released monday an alleged chief operational planner for Al Aida bin attach also said he helped Orga Nize the bombings of the us embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 that killed More than 200 the transcript said seventeen sailors were killed and dozens injured when suicide bombers steered an sex Plosive Sladen boat into the guided missile destroyer Cole on oct 122000 i participated in the buying or Purchas ing of the explosives bin attach said when asked what his role was in the attacks on the Cole and the embassies i put together the plan for the operation a year and a hah0 prior to the operation buying the boat and recruit ing the members that did the operation the release of bin at tasks transcript came five Days after the Pentagon released the record of hearings held for three other so called High value suspects at Guantanamo bin attach also is known As Tawfiq bin attach or Tawfiq attach Hallada or simply Hallad said he met with the Man who did the Africa embassy bombings just a few hours before the operation took place i was the link Between Osama bin Laden and his Deputy sheikh Abd Alrahim a Nashiri bin attach said bin attach also said he was with bin Laden when the Cole was attacked us intelligence documents allege that bin attach a yemeni who was born and raised in saudi Arabia is a scion of a prominent terrorist family that includes his father Mohammed who was close to bin Laden and younger brother Hassan who has been held at Guantanamo since 2004 arriving at the age of 17 in the late 1990s bin attach allegedly alternated Between serving As bin Laden bodyguard and fighting Afghanistan North Ern Alliance Force he lost his right leg in a Battlefield Accident in 1997 us intelligence says bin Laden wanted bin attach to be one of the hijackers on sept 112001 but that plan was foiled when bin attach was arrested in Yemen in april of that year and briefly imprisoned after attempting to get a us visa War depleted army deemed not ready for other conflicts by Ann Scott Tyson the Washington Post Washington four years after the invasion of Iraq the High and growing demand for us troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United states Short of the training person Nel and equipment that would be vital to fight a major ground conflict elsewhere senior us Mili tary and government officials acknowledge More troubling the officials say is that it will take years for the army and Marine corps to recover from what some officials privately have called a death spiral in which the evermore rapid Pace of warzone rotations has consumed 40 percent of their total gear wearied troops and left no time to train to fight anything other than the insurgencies now at hand the risk to the nation is serious and deepening senior officers warn because the us military now lacks a Large strategic Reserve of ground troops ready to respond quickly and decisively to potential foreign crises whether the internal collapse of Paki Stan a conflict with Iran or an outbreak of War on the korean Peninsula air and naval Power can Only go so far in compensating for infantry artillery and other land forces they said an immediate concern is that critical army Over seas equipment stocks for use in another conflict have been depleted by the recent troop increases in Iraq they said we have a strategy right now that is outstripping the Means to execute it Gen Peter Schoomaker army chief of staff testified before the Senate armed services committee on thursday Gen Peter Pace chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was asked last month by a House panel whether he was comfortable with the preparedness of army units in the United states he stated simply no i am not comfortable lawmakers who received classified briefings last week on army readiness voiced alarm Willard nominated to be Pacific Fleet commander Navy adm Robert f Willard has been nominated to become the new commander of us Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor Hawaii the defense department announced monday in previous assignments Wil lard has served As Deputy com Mander of Pacific Fleet and com Mander of 7th Fleet headquartered on the uss Blue Ridge based in Yokosuka Japan Willard is currently serving As vice chief of naval operations in Washington a defense depart ment news release says As an f14 aviator Willard has served aboard the aircraft Carri ers uss Kitty Hawk uss Constellation and uss Ranger according to the Navy he later commanded the amphibious assault ship uss Tripoli and the Carrier uss Abra Ham Lincoln in support of operations in Somalia and the persian Gulf since becoming a Flag officer Willard has served As commander of Carrier group five the Kitty Hawks strike group Willard would replace adm Gary Roughead who has been nominated to become head of Fleet forces command in nor Folk a the los Angeles native graduated the us naval Academy in 1973 free Zumba classes coming to Yokosuka Yokosuka naval base Japan instructors of Zumba one of the latest stateside fitness crazes will Stop at Yokosuka naval base this week to get sail ors and civilians shaking their booties Zumba pronounced touts itself As a get Happy workout that combines latin dance moves aerobics fit Ness intervals and resistance training set to latin rhythms Zumba instructors Are offering two free classes at Yokosuka a class open Only to Active duty Mil itary will be held thursday at 5 pm at the Fleet recreation Cen Ter open to anyone will be held saturday at 9 am in the Purdy fitness Center this is the first and Only Stop Zumba will make in Japan said fitness programs coordinator 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