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Article: 10 SUSPECTS IN USS COLE BOMBING ESCAPE BREAKOUT FROM YEMEN PRISON JOLTS AL-QAIDA-LINKED INQUIRY.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 12, 2003
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Byline: P-I NEWS SERVICES
SAN`A, Yemen -- Ten key suspects in the bombing of the USS Cole escaped from a high-security Yemeni prison yesterday, dealing a major blow to the investigation into the bombing blamed on the al-Qaida terror network.
Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed in the Oct. 12, 2000, attack.
A massive manhunt is under way for the men, two of whom U.S. counterterrorism officials say played key roles in the attack - chief suspect Jamal al-Badawi and Fahd Muhammad Ahmad al-Quso.
Al-Badawi allegedly bought the dinghy packed with explosives and rammed by suicide bombers into the anchored destroyer refueling in the southern ...