Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Al Badawi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Member of al-Qaeda
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Place of Birth: Mukayras District, Al Bayda' Governorate, Yemen
About Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Al Badawi
- Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Ali Al Badawi aka Jamal Abu Abed Al Rahman Al Badawi (Arabic: ???? ???? ???? ??? ???????) (born: July 22, 1960; or October 23, 1960; or 1963 – January 1, 2019) was a Yemeni who was indicted as an accomplice for his role in the 2000 USS Cole bombing off the coast of Aden, Yemen, which killed 17 American sailors on October 12, 2000. He was captured in Yemen and sentenced to death on September 29, 2004.
- Al-Badawi was also indicted on May 15, 2003, by the United States for the USS Cole bombing and the attempted attack on USS The Sullivans.
- He is thought to have travelled to Saudi Arabia and purchased a small boat and then a truck and trailer to transport it.
- This boat sank from the weight of the explosives while preparing the USS The Sullivans plot.
- Al-Badawi is also thought to have leased the safehouses used in these endeavors.
- Fox News called Al-Badawi a "mastermind" of the Cole bombing.Only two of the six charged by Yemen in the attack were sentenced to death; the other four were sentenced to 5–10 years imprisonment.
- After hearing his sentence, Al-Badawi declared "This is an unjust verdict, this is an American verdict.
- There are no human rights in the world, except for the Americans.
- All the Muslims in the world are being used to serve American interests." His family announced they would appeal.
- Because he was being held by U.S.
- forces, the other defendant sentenced to death, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was tried and sentenced in absentia. Al-Badawi twice escaped from Yemeni prison, once after his death sentence was issued, and was being sought as an FBI Most Wanted Terrorist fugitive.
- He was killed by an American drone strike by a kinetic Hellfire variant with pop-up blades on January 1, 2019 that was conducted in Ma'rib Governorate, Yemen.
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