Posted on 01/05/2019 8:59:49 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
The terrorist responsible for the deaths of 17 U.S. sailors on the USS Cole in 2000 is believed to be dead this week.
A U.S. official told CNN on Friday that Al Qaeda terrorist Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Badawi is believed to be dead after a U.S.-led airstrike on Yemen on Tuesday.
A predator drone reportedly struck Al-Badawi’s vehicle in an isolated attack as he was driving alone in the Ma’rib Governorate located in central Yemen.
Al-Badawi is believed to be the terrorist behind the Oct. 12, 2000 suicide bomber attack that struck the USS Cole as it refueled in a Yemen port. The attack claimed the lives of 17 sailors, and injured another 39.
It was the last major attack carried out by Al Qaeda before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks the following year.
He was one of the top terror figures on the FBI’s most-wanted list, and the U.S. State Department had a $5 million reward offered for information that led to Al-Badawi’s arrest.
His charges included: “Murder and Conspiracy to Murder United States Nationals and United States Military Personnel; Conspiracy to Use and Using Weapon of Mass Destruction; Damaging and Destroying Government Properties and Defense Facilities; Providing Material Support to Terrorist Organization,” according to the FBI.
He was originally arrested by Yemeni authorities in December 2000 for the USS Cole attack, but escaped from a Yemen prison in April 2003. He was recaptured nearly a year later, but managed to escape again in February 2006.
Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, another Al Qaeda terrorist, was also a leading member in the USS Cole bombing. He was the first to be charged for the USS Cole attack, and has been in U.S. custody since 2002, awaiting trial at Guantanamo Bay since 2006.
The Yemen-based sect of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is considered the terrorist organization’s most lethal. It has been able to take advantage of the civil war in Yemen to hide amongst the chaos.
In 2017, the U.S. launched 131 airstrikes on AQAP targets in Yemen, and another 36 strikes in 2018.
Al-Badawi was believed to be hiding out with AQAP in central Yemen for years.
He gets 72 bowls of matzo ball soup.
John Walker, now that’s a guy that I wanted to fall on a knife four times, survive it, develop a horrible bowel infection, and take 4 years to die from that.
#17. There was one report about an Israeli missile strike that on a Palestinian terrorist that was funny.
The Israelis called him at his hotel or house, and when he picked the phone up, they said, “Look outside the window” just as a missile was coming at him.
He no longer had to pay rent/mortgage or heat for his room. Where he was going, it was all free, forever!
Allahwahoo Whackbar!
Reap Hell on Islam indefinitely.
Almost as satisfying as when the Mossad placed a bomb in a cell phone and managed to get it to the man they wanted to terminate. Dialed him up, when answered the phone, Boom, another terrorist on the express train to join allah and his buddies in Hell.
Wow 19 years later and quadrillions of dollars spent on fighting terrorism and the US Government adds one to the plus column. Boy them gifted people in DC are talented.
You never hear the one that kills you
Super! I remember when the Cole showed up in Pascagoula, MS for refit after the attack - friends who worked on it say the smell of rotting body parts was terrible...glad the main perp is now rotting body parts himself.
How about 72 dominate gay virgins
“Maybe a modified Hellfire that dances in front of their vehicle before exploding?”
Maybe the Russians would sell us some of these tank-busters for our drones - seems to meet your request...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUJSaeE3EKY
We will still have drones over there. We just won’t have lots of ground troops
The President declared the News about Webb as fake and further, that he did not know Jim
Clearly marked and targeted by intel. The wheels in the Pentagon move slowly, but they remorselessly follow to the end.
His Ramadan gift came early this year.
We’re busy in Africa.
Good. In spite of the fact that Trump campaigned on having been against the Iraq War, I think he must have been for it and was just making the right campaign statement in 2016. Webb is not a good fit.
Lindh?
“Lindh?”
No. John Anthony Walker. Traitor and spy. I actually have more respect for the terrorist you refered to. At least he believed in his cause. This J.W. only cared about the money.
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