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US strikes kill top al-Qaida plotter of USS Cole bombing in Yemen: Pentagon

Jamal al-Badawi, a "legacy al-Qaida operative in Yemen" involved in the USS Cole bombing, was wanted by the US for his role in the attack. Seventeen American sailors were killed and at least 40 others injured in the terrorist attack on the US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Cole on October 12, 2000, while it was being refuelled in Yemen's Aden harbour.

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