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Associated Press

The US military killed a suspected al-Qaeda operative believed to have orchestrated an attack on the USS Cole in 2000, President Donald Trump said Sunday.
Trump said US forces “delivered justice” by killing Jamal al-Badawi. The attack on the Cole killed 17 US sailors.

“Our GREAT MILITARY has delivered justice for the heroes lost and wounded in the cowardly attack on the USS Cole,” Trump said in a Twitter post.
US Central Command confirmed later Sunday that al-Badawi was killed in a “precision strike” in Yemen Tuesday.

Our GREAT MILITARY has delivered justice for the heroes lost and wounded in the cowardly attack on the USS Cole. We have just killed the leader of that attack, Jamal al-Badawi. Our work against al Qaeda continues. We will never stop in our fight against Radical Islamic Terrorism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2019

Al-Badawi was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2003 on 50 counts of various terrorism offences, including murder of US nationals and military personnel.
The October 12, 2000, attack on the Cole took place when the ship was anchored in the Yemeni port of Aden.


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This file photo taken October 12, 2000 shows the port side of the guided missile destroyer USS Cole damaged after a suspected terrorist bomb exploded during a refuelling operation in the port of Aden in Yemen. Photo: HO / US NAVY / AFP

(FILES) In this undated file photo Yemeni Jamal al-Badawi is shown attending his trial in court October 18, 2007. - US President Donald Trump confirmed January 6, 2019 that the US military has killed one of the architects of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole that left 17 American servicemen dead. The military said Friday that Al-Qaeda operative Jamal al-Badawi was believed to have been killed in a precision strike in Yemen."Our GREAT MILITARY has delivered justice for the heroes lost and wounded in the cowardly attack on the USS Cole," Trump tweeted. "We have just killed the leader of that attack, Jamal al-Badawi." (Photo by KHALED FAZAA / AFP)

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President Donald Trump confirms Jamal al-Badawi, believed to have been behind attack, was killed in a ‘precision strike’


President Donald Trump confirms Jamal al-Badawi, believed to have been behind attack, was killed in a ‘precision strike’.


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