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Yemen Officials Reportedly Deny Capturing Jamal al-Badawi

By Andrew Cochran

I posted yesterday on the reported recapture of Jamal al-Badawi, USS Cole bombing mastermind and leader of al Qaeda in Yemen, who had escaped from prison in February. ABC News posted yesterday that U.S. law enforcement sources had confirmed the capture. But a UPI story out this afternoon quotes "a statement published Thursday in official newspapers that the news about recapturing Badawi, who had escaped from Sanaa's main prison with 22 other al-Qaida members last February, are untrue." I assume there is more to come on this important story.

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