USS Cole bombing fugitive killed in Yemen airstrike

By Peter Voskamp

Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Published: May 7, 2012

This file photo released by the FBI on May 15, 2003, shows Fahd al-Quso, charged as an al-Qaida member who helped to plan the attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in 2000. Yemeni officials say an airstrike has killed a top al-Qaida leader who was wanted in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. Local official Abu Bakr bin Farid said Fahd al-Quso was killed May 6, 2012, along with an aide in an airstrike in the southern Shabwa province.

AP Photo/FBI, File

WASHINGTON - A fugitive indicted in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole was killed Sunday by an airstrike in Yemen, the Yemeni Embassy in Washington confirmed.

Fahd al-Quso, 37, considered a leading figure in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed while driving in a car in the Rafth district in the eastern Yemeni province of Shabwa.

The FBI had offered a $5 million-dollar reward for information leading to the capture of al-Quso for his alleged role in the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 US sailors off Aden, Yemen.

The killing is seen by some observers as a sign of renewed anti-terrorism cooperation between the U.S. and Yemen under new Yemeni President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who took power February.

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