De eerste aanslag van Al Qaeida: USS Cole

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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Washington Post

Probe of USS Cole Bombing Unravels
Plotters Freed in Yemen; U.S. Efforts Frustrated

By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, May 4, 2008; A01



ADEN, Yemen -- 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 as the key organizers, were captured outside Yemen and are being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts. Many details of their alleged involvement remain classified. It is unclear when -- or if -- they will be tried by the military.

The collapse of the Cole investigation offers a revealing case study of the U.S. government's failure to bring al-Qaeda operatives and their leaders to justice for some of the most devastating attacks on American targets over the past decade.

A week after the Cole bombing, President Bill Clinton vowed to hunt down the plotters and promised, "Justice will prevail." In March 2002, President Bush said his administration was cooperating with Yemen to prevent it from becoming "a haven for terrorists." He added: "Every terrorist must be made to live as an international fugitive with no place to settle or organize, no place to hide, no governments to hide behind and not even a safe place to sleep."

Since then, Yemen has refused to extradite Badawi and an accomplice to the United States, where they have been indicted on murder charges. Other Cole conspirators have been freed after short prison terms. At least two went on to commit suicide attacks in Iraq.

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Staff researcher Robert E. Thomason in Washington contributed to this report.

klik voor BRON

Ik volgde een tip uit de lezerscomentaren en zie hier:

aangirfan:
Al-Zawahri - alQaeda's chief brains and strategist4 Mar 2008 ... USS Cole Bomber Jamal al-Badawi fought for the CIA in Bosnia. ... vice president Hosni Mubarak had been on the CIA payroll in the late 70s, ...
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2008/0...rains-and.html

Hip Forums -
Why the US hasn't had another terror attack Archives
Much like the first WTC bombing, the USS Cole Bomber Jamal al-Badawi also .... were once on the CIA payroll, like Bin Laden, are obviously CIA BLOWBACKS. ...
http://www.hipforums.com/forums/arch...54342-p-2.html

Why the US hasn't had another terror attack -
America Attacks ...Much like the first WTC bombing, the USS Cole Bomber Jamal al-Badawi also had ties to western intelligence and fought for the CIA in Bosnia. ...
http://www.hipforums.com/forums/show...2&page=6&pp=10
The YBBS -
Who Is Luai Sakra?Raed Hijazi, a US citizen who is part of a Boston al-Qaeda cell (see June ... Sakra apparently is a CIA informant before 9/11, perhaps starting in 2000 (see ...
www.yourbbsucks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17092

RAED HIJAZI
The man in charge of training for the Cole attack, according to the US, was Raed Hijazi, a former Boston taxi driver, who is an American citizen* of Palestinian origin. Jordanian security officials say he is a close associate of Mohammed Abu Zubayda, a member of Bin Laden's inner circle.

BRON

*born in California

Bekijk dit ook eens:
http://polidics.com/cia/top-ranking-...brication.html

En dus maar een oorlog beginnen tegen Irak en Afganistan...


Geen bewijzen, maar toch wéér eens vermoedens en een reuk , een stank, en wéér in dezelfde richting.

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Ook iets om lezen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

Een BBC docu