Posted on 02/05/2006 1:22:27 AM PST by Thalos
SANAA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Thirteen al Qaeda militants convicted in the attacks on the U.S. warship Cole and the French supertanker Limburg in Yemen were among 23 men who broke out of jail in Sanaa, a state-run Web site said on Saturday.
The September 26 site (www.26sep.net) quoted unnamed sources saying the 13 convicts included top militants Jamal Badawi and Fawaz al-Rabe'ie, who managed to flee the central prison by digging a 70-metre-long tunnel.
Rabe'ie -- the leader of the group convicted of bombing the Limburg in 2002 -- was facing the death sentence, while Badawi was serving 15 years in jail for the bombing of the Cole in 2000 after his sentence was commuted from the death penalty.
Badawi had escaped from prison in Aden in 2003 but was later arrested and sent back to prison, the Web site said.
Yemen, the ancestral home of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has cracked down on al Qaeda-linked militants following attacks at home.
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Oh yeah, right, 220 foot tunnel. nobody noticed. Who was guarding them? Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz? Why should I think that the guards bought them the shovels?
Or, did sympathizer ( who were supposed to guard them ) let them out/help them to escape?
Escaped, my ass!!
headline should read:
TERRORISTS ESCAPE FROM YEMENI JAIL AFTER PLEDGING TO ONLY MURDER INFIDELS ON INFIDEL SOIL FROM NOW ON.
there, now i feel better.
Oh, they escaped (wink, wink, wink)?
Saturday, April 12, 2003
10 USS Cole suspects escape Yemeni jail
SANAA: Ten Yemenis suspected of involvement in the deadly October 2000 attack on the USS Cole escaped from a jail Friday in the southern port of Aden, local authorities said.
The men broke out of a window around 5:00 am (0200 GMT) and the jailers realized about an hour later that they were gone, said the officials, who requested anonymity.
Among those who escaped was Jamal Badawi, one of the principal suspects held over the attack, which killed 17 US sailors and was claimed by Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda terrorist network.
Local officials said seven other suspects in the Cole case remained in prison.
Arriving at the jail after the escape, police found the bars cut over one of the windows and did not find any trace of the fugitives.
Authorities have launched a manhunt, distributing pictures of the fugitives to police posts around the Aden area. —AFP
I wonder if they had any help "escaping."
That would be pretty sweet. My only change is they wouldn't actually print that article. If they did, that trick would never work again.
Why is it all the major news feeds omit the other end of the escape tunnel was in a mosque?
I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you!!!
Mark
Yemen Police Kill Suspected Al-Qaeda Fugitive In Shootout
Security forces killed an alleged al-Qaeda operative in a firefight at a marketplace in northern Yemen, police officials said Monday.
Officials said the suspect, identified as Yassir Nassir al-Humaiqani, was killed in a shootout with policemen in the southern province of Abyan on Sunday.
Humaiqani was among 23 suspected operatives of the al-Qaeda terrrorist network who escaped from a tunnel dug from a high-security jail in Sanaa on February 3, 2006.
The officials, who asked anonymity told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that al-Humaiqani, reportedly masked and armed with a semi- automatic weapon and hand grenades, exchanged fire with policemen who tried to stop him.
Humaiqani was the third escapee to be killed by security forces since the mass jail break that embarrassed the Yemeni government and dealt a major blow to its efforts to pursue supporters of al-Qaeda.
The escapees also included 13 terrorists convicted in the 2000 bombing of the US destroyer USS Cole in port city of Aden and the bombing of the French oil supertanker Limburg in 2002.
In last October, security forces killed two of the jail breakers, Fawaz al-Rabyee and Muhammad al-Dailami, during two raids in a village north of the capital Sana'a
Two of the escapees were among four suicide bombers who carried out attacks at two oil facilities in eastern Yemen in last September.
Nine of the escapees have been recaptured or given themselves up to the authorities, including six convicted in the Limburg attack.
© 2007 DPA
I thought this happened a long time ago. Are there more?
I was posting an update due to the death of one of the escapees
Okay, Gee i am so sorry to hear of his passing. /s, well you know what I mean.
That was my reaction.
Sounds like we should make it easier for a few more to temporarily escape!
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