- Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso
Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso (born
November 12 ,1974 inAden, Yemen ) was wanted by the United StatesFederal Bureau of Investigation in connection with the 2000USS Cole bombing , which killed 17 American sailors onOctober 12 ,2000 off the port coast ofAden, Yemen . Al-Quso was being held by Yemeni authorities in connection with the attack when he escaped from prison in April 2003. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20030618112341/www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/alquso.htm FBI Seeking Information alert] , Internet Archive Wayback Machine,June 18 ,2003 ]In January 2000, Quso traveled to Malaysia, where he met with 9/11 hijackers
Khalid al-Mihdhar andNawaf al-Hazmi , as well as other Al-Qaeda operatives. Quso was interrogated in Yemen following theSeptember 11 attacks . During the interrogations, Quso was able to identify Hazmi and Mihdhar in photographs taken inMalaysia . [cite web |url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/could/ |title=The Man Who Knew - What If...|work=Frontline |publisher=PBS |accessdate=2008-09-29]He was indicted on
May 15, 2003 by the United States for the USS "Cole" bombing. By June 2003, he was one of several new terrorist suspects who were added to theFBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list . [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20030603172523/http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/terrorismsi.htm FBI Seeking Information, War on Terrorism list archive] , Internet Archive Wayback Machine,June 3 ,2003 ]Al-Quso was recaptured in March 2004 and was removed from FBI list
October 10 ,2004 . [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20041010184612/http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/terrorismsi.htm FBI Seeking Information archive] , Internet Archive Wayback Machine, October 10, 2004] [cite news |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E4D81131F933A15750C0A9629C8B63 |title=uspects In Cole Attack Recaptured |date=2004-03-20 |publisher=The New York Times]References
ee also
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Jamal Mohammad Ahmad Al Badawi External links
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/03/AR2008050302047.html? Probe of USS Cole Bombing Unravels]
Washington Post May 4 2008
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