American army retaliates against USS Cole bomber Jamal al-Badawy
Tuesday 08/January/2019 - 02:15 PM
Nahla Abdel Moneim
US President Donald Trump said Sunday that one of the most important al-Qaeda
members in Yemen who was involved in the USS Cole bombing, Jamal al-Badawi, was
killed during a military operation carried out by the US military with the help
of the intelligence services.
Donald Trump paid tribute to the American military men through a tweet he wrote
on his personal account on the Twitter social networking site, and described
them as heroes.
They were able to kill the extremist, whom the United States accuses of
co-organizing the suicide attack on USS Cole, in Aden port in Yemen on 12
October 2000, killing 17 US Navy personnel and wounding 39 others.
The US Central Command, according to spokesman Bill Urban, said that US forces
carried out the strike against the USS Cole on January 1, 2019, and managed to
kill him while driving a private vehicle in the province of Marib, northeast of
the capital Sana'a.
The US State Department put al-Badawi at the top of the wanted list. The State
Department's "Rewards for Justice" office allocated $5 million as a
financial award for information on his arrest after a US court in 2003 regarded
him as providing military and logistical support for the bombing of the Cole,
which al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for.
This comes in addition to directing a number of other charges against him,
related to murder and conspiracy against American citizens and military
personnel and damage to state property, and providing military support to
international terrorist organizations.
Jamal Mohammed al-Badawi, who was born in al-Bayda province in 1960, was
previously imprisoned but managed to escape from his prison in 2006 by
tunneling under his place of detention. In 2007, he returned voluntarily and
surrendered himself to the authorities.
