Was the USS Cole Bombing LIHOP?

Seems that way:

the intelligence team also tried to warn the Pentagon not to allow the USS Cole to make a refueling stop in Yemen five years ago, Weldon said.

On Oct. 12, 2000, a small boat loaded with explosives rammed into the side of the USS Cole as the ship refueled in port at Aden, killing the 17 Navy personnel.

"(Able Danger members) also identified the threat to the USS Cole two weeks before the attack, and two days before the attack were screaming not to let the (ship) come into the harbor at Yemen, because they knew something was going to happen," he said.

It could be argued that the military was "cruisin' for a bruisin'" around that time, and wanted some sort of spark to ignite military action in the middle east. When the politicans and didn't bite for military action following the USS Cole bombing, the military gave 9/11 the green light.