[lit-ideas] War on terror ...
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 13:10:56 EST
Speaking of all the things we are doing to keep our country safe from
terrorism .....
_http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/05/cole.escape/index.html_
(http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/05/cole.escape/index.html)
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.
The FBI released a statement saying that information about the escape was
"currently coming in through government channels."
"We are closely monitoring the situation at this time and we will work with
our domestic and international partners to actively pursue these dangerous
terrorists through the means we have available," the statement said.
Also among the escapees was Fawaz Yahya Al-Rabeei, one of those responsible
for attacking the French tanker Limburg in 2002.
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