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Byline: William Neikirk
NORFOLK, Va._Flanked by giant warships as gray as the sky above, President Clinton honored the USS Cole's 17 dead and 39 injured sailors Wednesday as victims of terror who "rose to freedom's challenge."
At a somber ceremony in which some of the wounded watched as they lay in hospital gurneys, the president praised the victims' patriotism and sacrifice and promised to track down those responsible.
"You will not have a safe harbor," Clinton warned. "We will find you. Justice will prevail."
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh provided the first sign that such talk may be more than bluster. In an interview televised by a Qatar satellite station, he said his investigators have found the rented house of two men "who carried out the crime" by steering a boat laden with explosives alongside the destroyer six days ago.
In addition, Saleh said his investigators had uncovered the car that transported the boat and the launcher that lowered it into the water, as well as the workshop that made the engine. "This attack had been planned for a long time," he said.
As the…