Top Al Qaeda convicts escape from Yemen jail

[occuserpens]

GWOT goes up in smoke?

Top Al Qaeda convicts escape from Yemen jail

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. How many of those were # 2s? n/t

[janx]

2. ALL of them.

;-)

[redirish28]

maybe I'm jumping the gun but what if they "escape" just in time

to pull off the second 9-11 with the help of either Iran or Syria.Hence into that country we go.

[wookie294]

4. It wouldn't surprise me if they were released on purpose

It's possible the Yemen government struck a deal.

[biscotti]

22. Yup

[neweurope]

5. O-oh...*has tinfoil hat firmly in place*

:scared:

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Delphinus]

20. My tinfoil hat

would have taken me there eventually - I'm just so upset right now by the environmental happenings, it would have taken me until this afternoon to think that on my own. Thanks!

[Eugene]

3. AGAIN?!

/rocky squirrel

As the article notes, this isn't the first time.
The just can't keep all those #3 guys locked up.

[matcom]

6. CNN Breaking: Mastermind Of USS Cole Bombing Escapes Yemen Prison

just reported

on edit: CNN Link Here

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/05/cole.escape/index.html

[MADem]

7. Oh, fachrissake.......

What, did he get a birthday cake with a file in it???

[matcom]

8. Clinton sent it to him

wait for it.....

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. No, it is Hillary's fault. And John Kerry while he was in Switzerland

Don't forget, Al Gore emailed him the key to his cell with his Blackberry.

[Botany]

9. BREAKING ......

Cell door left unlocked ...... guard not on duty ...... clean clothes in his size on hook ....
car w/ maps, $, cell phone, and food parked in front of prison.

According to Fox News only one person could be @ fault:

[warrior1]

10. Well that's fucking great.

[shaniqua6392]

11. That is what we get when we let another country imprison

a criminal that harmed American interests. We should have had the bastard.

[Benhurst]

17. Yeah. We can keep 'em locked away or execute 'em,

guilty or not.

[leesa]

31. Oh please, they probably don't even exist.

[cal04]

12. wonder why they didn't mention this yesterday

Top Al Qaeda convicts escape from Yemen jail
04 Feb 2006 12:13:37 GMT

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 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.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0461174.htm

[matcom]

13. thanks for the link

interesting indeed

[jackbourassa]

15. Is it me?

Or is Bush doing a terrible job fighting terrorists?

[cal04]

14. USS Cole Attack Planner Escapes link

A man considered a mastermind of the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 soldiers in a Yemeni port in 2000 was among 23 people who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday.

The international police agency issued an "urgent global security alert" for those who escaped Friday from the prison via a tunnel. It called the escapees "dangerous individuals."

A Yemen security official announced the escape Friday but did not provide details.


http://www.wral.com/apworldnews/6757945/detail.html

[cal04]

18. 2003 Cole bombers escape, interesting

Cole bombers escape
By Susan Sachs
April 13 2003



Ten suspected al-Qaeda members, including at least two suspects in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, escaped from a high-security Yemeni prison on Friday, according to Yemeni officials. One of the escapees was said to be Jamal al-Badawi, who is believed to have procured the small boat that was loaded with explosives and driven into the ship as it was refuelling off the southern Yemeni port of Aden in October 2000.

Seventeen American sailors were killed and 38 others injured in the suicide bombing, which blew a 12- by 18-metre hole in the ship at the waterline. There were few details about the prison break and officials said the incident was still being investigated. "A few prisoners have escaped, and there is no real evidence of any attack on the place they've been held," Abubakr al Qirbi, Yemen's Foreign Minister, said in a telephone interview from the capital Sanaa.

It was not clear how many of the 10 missing men were connected with the USS Cole case. "I think some of them are," said Mr Qirbi, "but we don't have now all the details." According to other reports, two of the escapees were suspects in the suicide bombing and the others were accused of connections to
al-Qaeda.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/12/1050069122525.html

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/12/1050069119252.html

[Junkdrawer]

19. Al Qaeda is EXACTLY what the Corporate Media says it is...

and anyone who says differently is nothing but a silly conspiracy theorist. :sarcasm:

[leesa]

32. You got it Baby! They are our Goldstein.

[Igel]

21. It's not the first time, actually.

This has happened before.

It argues strongly for one of two things: (1) you kill foreigners on your soil by invitation, and be killed--it's hard to escape death; (2) transferring the prisoners to more secure prisons, even if that means dissing the honor and dignity of Yemenis.

[bemildred]

23. Must be time for a new "terrist mastermind".

Lexatada al Luthor strikes again.

[PhilipShore]

24. CBS/AP: Interpol: USS Cole Attack Planner Escapes

CBS News/AP
Interpol: USS Cole Attack Planner Escapes
Feb. 5, 2006

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/05/ap/world/mainD8FJ2ER80.shtml

(AP) A man considered a mastermind of the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in a Yemeni port in 2000 was among 23 people who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday.

The international police agency issued an "urgent global security alert" for those who escaped Friday from the prison via a tunnel. It called the escapees "dangerous individuals."

A Yemen security official announced the escape of convicted al-Qaida members Friday but did not provide details.

Interpol said in a statement that at least 13 of the 23 escapees were convicted al-Qaida fighters, who escaped via a 140-yard-long tunnel "dug by the prisoners and co-conspirators outside."

[DemInDistress]

25. Just in time for the next big attack on America and

maybe too convenient. Only 49 days until iran opens up for business, Oil bourse of course !!

[OneBlueSky]

26. I smell fish . . . n/t

.

[lady lib]

27. Cause fish and miraculous events always seem to go together.

Hehe ;)

[dogday]

28. They all seem to elude capture

just was there, almost got him, crap come on.....

[SmokingJacket]

29. Well, they needed a new Osama.

Watch him pop-up in Iran and harness this freshly stoked Islamic unrest in another bombing... voila.

:eyes:

[Beetwasher]

30. Beep Beep!

Stocks in ACME just doubled.