Yemen Frees USS Cole Mastermind
This guy kills our troops in a terrorist attack, goes to jail, escapes, goes back to jail, escapes again, goes back to jail again, and now they let him out because he’ll pledge allegiance to the Munchkin King of Yemen? WTF?
~Bash
SAN’A, Yemen- Yemen has set free one of the al-Qaida masterminds of the USS Cole bombing in 2000 that killed 17 American sailors, a senior security official said Thursday.
Jamal al-Badawi, who is wanted by the FBI, was convicted in 2004 of plotting, preparing and helping carry out the USS Cole bombing and received a death sentence that was commuted to 15 years in prison.
He and 22 others, mostly al-Qaida fighters, escaped from prison in But al-Badawi was granted his freedom after turning himself in 15 days ago and pledging loyalty to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The official said police were told by the government to “stop all previous orders concerning measures adopted against al-Badawi.”
Witnesses told The Associated Press that al-Badawi was receiving well- wishers at his home in the al-Buraika district in Aden.
The Interior Ministry said earlier that al-Badawi voluntarily gave himself up to police, but media reports said tribal chiefs mediated his surrender after he renounced terrorism and pledged allegiance to the Yemeni leader.
Al-Badawi had escaped prison once before with nine other suspects of the Cole attack in April 2003, but was rearrested.
AP article by Ahmed al-Haj here.
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can’t we put sf or the cia on a mission to quietly snatch this dude and punch his ticket?
October 25th, 2007 at 8:57 pmNow we got him…Drone on the way.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:58 pmOh good … Now we can kill him.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:59 pmI remember hearing how the Crown Prince of Yemen personally leads the new counter terrorism unit they formed, and that they have a weird sometimes kill, sometimes capture/preach-to/release policy.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:44 pm