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Article: Probe of USS Cole Bombing Unravels; Plotters Freed in Yemen; U.S. Efforts Frustrated [Correction 5/14/08]
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- The Washington Post
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- May 4, 2008
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Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole with
an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the
defendants convicted in the attack have escaped from prison or been
freed by Yemeni officials.
Jamal al-Badawi, a Yemeni who helped organize the plot to bomb
the Cole as it refueled in this Yemeni port on Oct. 12, 2000, has
broken out of prison twice. He was recaptured both times, but then
secretly released by the government last fall. Yemeni authorities
jailed him again after receiving complaints from Washington. But
U.S. officials have so little faith that he's still in his cell that
they have demanded the right to perform random inspections.
Two suspects, described ...
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