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Airstrike kills jihad terrorist behind USS Cole bombing in 2000

Jan 7, 2019 11:23 am By Robert Spencer

Many believe that the killing of high profile figures in al-Qaeda and other jihad groups will leave the groups rudderless and take away the enthusiasm of the rank and file. These analysts do not understand that these groups are motivated not by attachment to a charismatic leader or revered hero, but by a religious ideology. That, however, is a fact they are not generally disposed to admit.

“US official: Airstrike kills terrorist behind USS Cole bombing,” by Ryan Browne and Barbara Starr, CNN, January 4, 2019:

Washington (CNN)The terrorist behind the 2000 attack on the USS Cole is believed to have been killed in a US airstrike in Yemen on Tuesday, according to a US administration official.

Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Badawi was an al Qaeda operative who the US believes helped orchestrate the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors.

The official said all intelligence indicators show al-Badawi was killed in a strike in Yemen as a result of a joint US military and intelligence operation.

US officials told CNN that the strike took place in Yemen’s Ma’rib Governorate.

While US Central Command, which oversees military operations in the region, later confirmed that al-Badawi was targeted in a strike, a spokesman said the US was still assessing the results.

“US forces conducted a precision strike Jan. 1st in the Marib governate, Yemen, targeting Jamal al-Badawi, a legacy al Qaeda operative in Yemen involved in the USS Cole bombing,” US Navy Capt. Bill Urban, a spokesman for Central Command, told CNN in a statement.

“US forces are still assessing the results of the strike following a deliberate process to confirm his death,” he added.

The administration official said that al-Badawi was struck while driving alone in a vehicle and that the US assessed there was not any collateral damage.

The Cole was attacked by suicide bombers in a small boat laden with explosives while in port in Aden, Yemen, for refueling. The attack also wounded 39 sailors.

The bombing was attributed to al Qaeda and foreshadowed the attack on the US less than one year later on September 11, 2001….

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  1. Renate says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 11:27 am

    Good!

  2. Rarely says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 12:29 pm

    Those 72 virgins are sure getting a workout.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 3:12 pm

    As that jihadist /Muslim terrorist, chief Ahamad Mohammaed Ali Al –Badawi as well as those other jihadist stooges ,of his, who actually carried out that jihad bombing murder attack against the sailors who were the crew on the USS Cole in theyear200. . The all had a very harsh reality check after they died.First the jihadists boat bombers who struck the Cole and then the recently dead Al –Badawi are all now suffering the same.

    For instead of finding themselves in a paradise, with or without virgins, they found themselves , to their shock and horror, trapped and suffering in the fires of hell, Luke 16:1-31. As the Bible teaches murderer “will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21. The Bible also gives a list of those who are fated to suffer terribly forever in the Lake of fire and murderers are on that list, Revelations 21:8.

    Furthermore, all those heinous jihad suicide/homicide attacker are both murderous and demonic. It now should be made known that this jihad murderous bombing is the outcome of the Islamic doctrine from the Qu‘’ran [the Koran] of a sexual paradise with many virgins, houris , in it for the male Muslim /jihadist who dies fighting in the jihad for the cause of Islam is found in the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran, in Sura 44:54. 55: 56. 78:31. Also there is the Koranic instruction of Sura 9:111 which teaches “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Getting back to the origin doctrine of Islam from the Koran of a sex –filled paradise with many houris for the use only by the male jihadist who dies fight for the advancement of Islam. All this started when the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad manufactured Islam he put , had stolen, some of sex doctrine of Zoroastrian mythology and a yet smaller bit of Hindu mythological sex teachings along with as well as mixture pagan Arabian folklore and myth plus a heavy dose of Judaism and Christianity . Also some of it apostate “Christianity” For the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, couldn’t discern the difference between genuine Bible based Christianity and bogus “Christianity.” Those words and teaching Muhammad gathered from many sources, including the virgins /sex place mythology. , and taught as “Divine Truth” were written down on many things then later compiled and then went into the composition of the Koran. So the hoax of the Koran is actually a mixture and fusion Judaism Christianity and mythology of other religions and now the Muslim clerics with the Koranic brainwashing of young Muslims who are thoroughly mind programmed into believing this Islamic/Koranic virgins myth. This deception of false doctrine /myth into the thoughts of some people was predicted in the Bible along with the false teachers who engage in the indoctrination of such a myth /doctrine into the minds and hearts other people . For it is written “For the time will come when they will not stand wholesome teaching, but will follow their own fancy and gather a crown of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [N.E.B.]

  4. James Lincoln says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 5:33 pm

    A few years before the USS Cole attack, I was stationed on the USS Hewitt, also in port in Aden, Yemen, for refueling.

    Every time I hear about the USS Cole attack, I think of what easily could have been. And then I say a prayer for the 17 killed and 39 injured American sailors, and I weep inside.

    • Roderick MacUalraig says

      Jan 7, 2019 at 6:19 pm

      Indeed. I pray for the lost sea dogs, too. If only the Navy cared. Navy installations are extremely soft targets. And I cry because it’s more disasters waiting to happen.

      The personnel aren’t doing any rigorous, effective training. Weakness and fatness and and not being martially prepared for a fight, at the small element level or at the personal level, is 100% acceptable.

      It’s a shame. But it’s the truth.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 7, 2019 at 8:35 pm

      Thank you, James.

  5. gravenimage says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 8:37 pm

    Airstrike kills jihad terrorist behind USS Cole bombing in 2000
    …………………………….

    *Good*.

    No, it won’t end Jihad–but this is still excellent to hear.

  6. somehistory says

    Jan 8, 2019 at 10:27 pm

    moslim terror groups are not like some other groups of non moslims who commit terror or have done so in the past.

    There are groups that form around a certain person, much like people gathered around Jim Jones, or David Koresh. And for these groups, the leader is absolutely vital to the group remaining together. Besides the leader, there are others who have their own positions within the group, but these can be replaced and the group stays. Kill the leader, and the group dissolves.

    As Mr. Spencer stated, it is different with moslim groups because it is islam, its filthy book and the constant brainwashing in the barracks that keep terrorism going.

    This particular terrorist may have been creative in his terror thinking…the sailors were not expecting a couple of guys in a small boat to come close and bomb their large, well-equipped ship and kill a lot of sailors. They watch out for such things now.

    He may have been able to think up tactics that others in the moslim lands might not, but terrorism will go on without him, just as it has gone on without osama bin ladien and without that mass murderer, raper of children who claimed to have spoken with an angel and made up all of his own rules, including to strike terror in every non moslim’s heart.

    But I won’t be crying any tears over his death. Evil has to be eliminated. Even if he has a brother who thinks just like he did.

  7. TruthHonestReality says

    Jan 11, 2019 at 12:53 am

    Guess they’re in allah heaven raping 72 – nine year olds now !?!

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