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Eugene

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Fri Jan 4, 2019, 03:40 PM Jan 2019

US says airstrike targeted militant tied to USS Cole bombing

Source: Associated Press

US says airstrike targeted militant tied to USS Cole bombing

By ROBERT BURNS
January 4, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — An American airstrike earlier this week targeted an al-Qaida operative accused of involvement in the attack nearly two decades ago on the USS Cole that killed 17 sailors, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday.

The man targeted, Jamal al-Badawi, is wanted in the United States for his role in the Cole attack on Oct. 12, 2000. He was indicted by a U.S. grand jury in 2003 and charged with 50 counts of various terrorism offenses, including murder of U.S. nationals and murder of U.S. military personnel.

“U.S. forces are still assessing the results of the strike following a deliberate process to confirm his death,” the spokesman for U.S. Central Command, Navy Capt. William Urban, said.

Urban said the airstrike was conducted Jan. 1 in the governate of Marib, which is east of Sanaa, the Yemeni capital.

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US says airstrike targeted militant tied to USS Cole bombing (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2019 OP
And I guarantee that rump will take credit for this even tho multiple admins kept ... SWBTATTReg Jan 2019 #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. And I guarantee that rump will take credit for this even tho multiple admins kept ...
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 03:45 PM
Jan 2019

track of these bad guys in order to finally bring justice to them, and for their victims.

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