Reports that Al-Qaeda commander Jamal al-Badawi was killed in US drone strike in al-Bayda province, he was 1 of most wanted men for the US and he was the mastermind behind 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen's Aden harbor. pic.twitter.com/EEDefNt647
— H.K ?? (@Ibra_Joudeh) January 4, 2019
Great job, guys!
Via Daily Wire:
The terrorist who was one of the planners responsible for the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 which killed 17 American sailors and wounded 39 others, has been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Yemen, according to a Trump administration official.
Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Badawi, who was a member of Qaeda, helped plan the October 12, 2000 attack; in 2003, the U.S. Justice Department indicted him as one of the last main co-conspirators who were still at large. The Cole had stopped in Aden harbor for a routine fuel stop when a small fiberglass boat with C4 explosives directed by two suicide bombers approached the Cole. The explosion left a 40-by-60-foot hole in the ship’s port side. Some of the blast forced the deck to surge upward, killing crew members who were lining up for lunch. It took three days to get the damage under control.