San’aa, Yemen – The man behind the terrorist attack against the Virginia-based USS Cole has been arrested. The SABA News Agency said Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal, also known as Abu Assem al-Makky, was arrested after security forces surrounded his hide-out west of the capital, San’a. Al-Ahdal has been described as the main coordinator of al-Qaeda activities in Yemen, ranking second to Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenant in Yemen who was killed last November in a missile attack from a CIA-operated Predator drone. Yemeni security information said the Saudi-born al-Ahdal was a mastermind of the 2002 attack on a French oil tanker off Yemen’s coast and the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 US sailors.Full Story
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