Yemen

Jamal Badawi, one of the al Qaeda operatives behind the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, surrendered to Yemeni authorities, according to a report. Badawi escaped from a Yemeni prison in February 2005 along with 22 other al Qaeda operatives.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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