The Cole Bombers: dead or alive
SANA’A – Two Yemenis who fled in April 2003 from the custody of political security in Aden, were responsible for suicide attacks in Iraq, sources have told Raynews.
The two separate attacks, which led to dozens of deaths and injured, were carried out this month by two persons originally from Aden in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The sources said that the family of one of the suicide bombers, 29 year-old Khaldoun Al-Hukaimi, were informed of his “martyrdom” by a call from Syria on 19th of July, the day the attack on coalition forces was executed.
According to the sources, the same scenario faced the family of the second Yemeni, 28 year-old Saleh Mana, who received the news of their relative’s suicide the day before the Al-Hukaimi family.
The two, held in Aden under charges of involvement with the 2000 attack on the American vessel USS Cole, escaped along with another eight from custody in Aden.
So two suspected Cole bombers were reported killed in Iraq in a phone call to their families in Yemen. So I guess we can stop looking for them now. Or not.
