Jaber al-Banna, also known as Jaber Elbaneh, who is on the list of the most wanted terrorists by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with a reward of $5 million for information leading to his arrest, attends the first hearing into his case at a state security court of appeals in Sanaa February 23, 2008. He was sentenced in absentia to ten years in prison by a lower court on November 7, 2007 over his role in al Qaeda's attacks on oil and gas facilities in Yemen in 2006. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN)
Yemen
On 12 October 2000, two suicide bombers detonated a small boat containing explosives alongside the USS Cole as it was refueling in Aden harbor. Seventeen US sailors were killed and 39 others were wounded.
On 6 October 2002, the French oil tanker Limburg was the target of a terrorist attack in the Gulf of Aden, which killed one crewmember and released 90,000 barrels of oil. An explosives-laden boat hit the tanker, in an attack that was similar to the one on the USS Cole.
In December 2002, a North Korean freighter disguised as a Cambodian ship was intercepted in the Arabian Sea and seized at gun point by the US Navy and Spanish marines; the vessel was carrying a shipment bound for Yemen of 15 Scud missiles, warheads, and an agent used in Scud fuel. President Bush ordered the shipment released after concluding the Yemen-North Korean deal was concluded on a legal basis. Also in December, a Yemeni Muslim extremist killed three American doctors and wounded a pharmacist by opening fire in a Baptist hospital in the town of Jibla.
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