According to the Associated Press, the Pakistani government arrested and gave the U.S. a Yemeni student wanted in connection with the U.S.S. Cole bombing who is also suspected of ties to Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden's terrorist network. The Pakistani government didn't want a fanfare, so they arrested and turned the guy over to U.S. authorities on Thursday without a proper extradition and deportation hearing (translation: they didn't want Bin Laden's network getting word that they were cooperating with the U.S. and therefore make themselves a target as well).

Now, mind you, this is the first person to be arrested in connection with the U.S.S. Cole bombing, which took place a year ago. That's right -- it took a year to catch up to someone for this attack. And while Osama Bin Laden might've been mentioned in connection with the Cole, his name wasn't hammered into our consciousness like it is now. But the thing is, why did it take an entire year to arrest someone in connection with a bombing that destroyed American property and killed American citizens (citizens serving our country, no less!) while within two days of the World Trade Center attacks, we had a name of the prime suspect and within a few weeks, we had a full-scale military response underway?

The Cole was an actual terrorist attack against our country, yet the public response and outrage for that fizzled out very quickly. Maybe because it didn't happen on U.S. soil, maybe because it wasn't against civilians, maybe because it didn't kill on the magnitude of the 9/11 attacks, maybe because it didn't destroy U.S. landmarks. But either way, an attack was made against our country when they attacked the Cole, yet I find it hard to accept the fact that no one had any distinct leads until a year later and people began linking it to the 9/11 attacks.