U.S. targets suspected USS Cole bombing planner in Yemen - statement

 

FILE PHOTO: The port side damage to the guided missile destroyer USS Cole is pictured after a bomb attack during a refueling operation in the port of Aden in this October 12, 2000 file photo. REUTERS/Aladin Abdel Naby

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. strike targeted a militant in Yemen believed to be one of the planners of a deadly bombing of the Navy destroyer USS Cole in 2000, but the results of the strike were still being assessed, the U.S. military said on Friday.

 

U.S. Central Command said in a statement that the strike on Jan. 1 in the Marib governate of Yemen had targeted Jamal al-Badawi, who was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2003 and was wanted for his role in the USS Cole attack. He escaped from prison in Yemen twice, once in 2003 and again in 2006.

 

There is a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest.

 

On Oct. 12, 2000, two men in a small boat detonated explosives alongside the Navy guided missile destroyer as it was refuelling in Aden, killing 17 sailors, wounding more than three dozen others and blasting a gaping hole in its hull.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-01-05

Let’s hope they got him!

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

There is a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest.

Wouldn't that be an incentive to  let him escape too ?

Why now?

1 hour ago, evadgib said:

Why now?

They tend not to forget these things does the U S .. It may be this guy has managed to stay fairly anonymous since escaping jail or it could be they've known his whereabouts for some time and the U S have just been waiting for the right time to strike .. A guy named Mohammed Zammar who is heavily implicated in the 9/11 events was picked up only last spring in Syria by Kurdish forces .. At present I understand he's in a max security prison there on unspecified charges but you can bet you're last dollar if he is released it will be into the " safe custody " of the U S .. 

Good job big brother.

 

wait for a peace treaty to begin in a civil war torn area, that has resulted in a terrible terrible famine

 

wait until the poor starving bustards crawl out from their wee hidy holes, for a glimpse of the sun

 

wait until they think it’s safe to come out and play

 

then bomb the bejesus outta them.

 

good job.