US strikes kill top al-Qaeda leader

Washington: Jamal al-Badawi, the top al-Qaeda leader responsible for the deadly USS Cole bombing in 2000 in which 17 American sailors were killed, has died in US airstrikes in Yemen, the Pentagon said.
Seventeen US sailors lost their lives and at least 40 others injured in the terrorist attack on the US Navy guided-missile destroyer on October 12, 2000, while it was being refuelled in Yemen’s Aden harbour. Badawi, a “legacy al-Qaeda operative in Yemen” involved in the USS Cole bombing, was wanted by the US for his role in the attack. Spokesman of the US Central Command : “Jamal al-Badawi was killed in a precision strike in Marib governate on January 1”. (PTI)