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Puck
The Texan
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 Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:20 pm USS Cole Plotter and 22 Others Escape Prison |
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USS Cole plotter escapes prison
(CNN) -- Interpol has issued "an urgent global security alert" after 23 "dangerous individuals" -- including a man identified as the mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole in 2000 -- escaped from a Yemeni prison.
The international crime-fighting organization said Sunday at least 13 of the 23 who escaped Friday were "convicted al Qaeda terrorists, some of whom were involved in attacks on U.S. and French ships in 2000 and 2002."
"Al Qaeda terrorists have been deemed a serious threat to the entire world community by the U.N. Security Council, by Interpol and by a wide range of countries," Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said in the statement.
They escaped via a 140-meter (150-yard) -long tunnel "dug by the prisoners and co-conspirators outside," Interpol said.
"Their escape cannot be considered an internal problem for Yemen alone."
Among the escapees was Jamal Ahmed Badawi, considered the mastermind behind the attack on the USS Cole on October 12, 2000.
Badawi was sentenced to death in September 2004 for plotting the attack. Two suicide bombers blew up an explosives-laden boat next to the destroyer while the destroyer was in the Aden, Yemen, harbor for a routine fuel stop.
The attack killed 17 sailors and wounded 39 others.
Also among the escapees was Fawaz Yahya Al-Rabeei, one of those responsible for attacking the French tanker Limburg in 2002.
Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/05/cole.escape/index.html
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Republican_Man
STV's Premier Conservative
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| Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:11 pm |
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Not good. The fools, letting them get away like that...Not goood...
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Republican_Man
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| Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:03 pm |
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Apparently he and 9 others escaped in the past and were serving 15 more years in prison. Now there's a massive international alert because of this failure...
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TrekkieMage
Office Junkie
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| Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:42 pm |
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They missed a bunch of Al Qaeda terrorists on death row digging a hole to get out of prison? This is a huge failure, and an international alarm.
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webtaz99
Commodore
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| Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:32 pm |
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How did they end up in Yemen anyway? Slavery is still rampant in Yemen, for crying out loud!
I gaurantee they wouldn't have gotten out of Gitmo (alive, anyway)!
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Republican_Man
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| Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:49 pm |
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They were tried and imprisoned there, never extradited to the US, unfortunately...
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