What, Yemen suspects escape AGAIN?!?! Are these supposed

[Sperk]

to be the same guys? WTF??? Notice the date.....
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Suspects In USS Cole Bombing Escape

SAN`A, Yemen, April 11, 2003



The USS Cole following the bombing. (AP)



(AP) Yemeni authorities were hunting for 10 of the main suspects in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole after they escaped from prison Friday, officials said.

The fugitives, including chief suspect Jamal al-Badawi, had been jailed in the port city of Aden since shortly after the destroyer was bombed, killing 17 American sailors.

Officials at Aden's governor's office would not say how the men escaped early Friday. But they quoted intelligence sources as saying security forces were out in force in a major search operation.

nore...............


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/30/attack/main551641.shtml



now from a few days ago
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-02-03-qaeda-yemen_x.htm

Al-Qaeda suspects escape from Yemen prison
SANAA, Yemen (AFP) — Twenty-three suspected members of Al-Qaeda escaped from prison Friday in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the website of the armed forces' official newspaper reported.
The suspects broke out of the prison run by the political security service around midday, the Internet edition of the Sept. 26 weekly said without elaborating on the circumstances.

A security official who requested anonymity confirmed the breakout to AFP but declined to go into details or specify the nationalities of the suspects.

more...........

[Don Claybrook]

1. great catch

Unless there's a compelling reason to change my mind, I'm under the assumption that we just fabricated this story (and probably the 2003 story) for propaganda purposes. This is much more likely than either or especially both of these stories being true.

Thanks for catching that.

[SmokingJacket]

5. Either that or they're actually "our guys."

And they didn't escape -- we broke them out.

Twenty-three guys at once???

The more AlQaeda running around, the better justified is the Long War on Terror.

[CoffeeCat]

19. Or more justification...should a terrorist attack happen in the US (nt)

[JeffR]

2. Holy shit

Good catch, Sperk!
:kick:

[Captain Hilts]

3. THANK YOU. I was wondering the same thing. I remember the 10 getting out

[salin]

4. great catch

sounds like a John Ashcroft moment (ala we just found a "dirty bomber" - and having to retrack it esp after it was learned that the person had been held for months...)

[Sperk]

6. what's really weird is that the new article makes no mention of the

previous "escapees". Jesus, everything these asses tell us is B.S.

[SpiralHawk]

7. Nothing to worry about. The Ministry of Truth

would be delighted to straighten this mess out for you -- if only it weren't Classified.

So just shut up and sit down and eat your choco-rations.

Administration experts agree: "Everything is just fine."

[cal04]

8. glad someone else noticed this today, very strange

that it was breaking here today but was in foreign news yesterday, plus it happened on a Friday in 2003
which was mentioned in one of the articles(Badawi had escaped from prison in Aden in 2003 but was later arrested and sent back to prison, the Web site said)
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.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/12/1050069119252.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2086155&mesg_id=2086155

[salin]

9. CBS article mentions the SAME escapee

the usa today thread didn't (or at least in my cursory read) but the current CBS article does:

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."


snip

Yemeni officials confirmed to Interpol that a man considered a mastermind of the Cole attack, identified as Jamal al-Badawi, was among those who escaped.

Al-Badawi was among those sentenced to death in September 2004 for plotting the USS Cole attack. Two suicide bombers blew up an explosives-laden boat next to the destroyer as it refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden on Oct. 12, 2000


Very interesting - important find Sperk... how do we get the word... and more importantly the QUESTION out there?

[Sperk]

11. I sent the post to the Huffington Post under their "scoop" section and

asked if they could do a little more investigation on it.

Anyone else we should send it to?

[salin]

13. read one more item - seems he escaped, was recaught, and

has escaped again - so perhaps the question isn't about replaying the same story - but how does this guy keep getting away.

The other thing that has always bothered me is that bushco claims that terrorism and strikes against the US were not on their radar in the summer of 01... BUT during the weeks prior to his election (selection) in 00 - this attack occured - how does he forget that? How do they play off putting terrorism as such a low priority (in Ashcroft's budget antiterrorism efforts were dropped such that they were not among the top ten priority areas.)?

[Sperk]

14. I can't find any "real time" articles on his recaptureonly references

to it in current articles. Am I making too much of this? It seems to me if you report the escape, you'll report the capture.

DId they capture all 10 of the original jail birds? Can anyone else find any stories about their capture, or should I say "recapture", now we have to re-recapture them. Something seems a little odd to me.
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0461174.htm

and if you read this current story closely it says that according to a web site he was recaptured.

snip...

The September 26 site (www.26sep.net) 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.

snip...

THE WEB SITE SAID?!?!?! unnamed sources?!?!? I'm going to go check out this web site www.26sep.net

come along :-)

[Sperk]

15. in arabic......pentagon whoring again? this does not seem right

Help me to understand this guys.

[Sperk]

16. and what is the significants of sep 26 to the arabs?

n/t

[salin]

17. that is odd, isn't it

it refers to the info per a website reference - but not the original ones, nor stories per the recapture. Need someone with Lexis Nexus search capabilities to find any news items that might refer to a recapture.

[stillcool]

10. Uh-oh....got to go....

stock up on tinfoil....this is way too convenient for one of those 'false flag' thingys. I hope they all have their passports on them, so we'll be sure when the deed is done, they were the doer's.

[louis-t]

12. Bet the 'escapees' will end up in Iran

CIA has an excuse to go after them and, while they're there...................

[stickdog]

18. Disinfo reruns?

Again?