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Al-Qaeda fugitive killed in Yemen | Al-Qaeda fugitive killed in Yemen |
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Yemeni security forces have killed a key al-Qaeda fugitive who escaped from jail earlier this year, officials said. | Yemeni security forces have killed a key al-Qaeda fugitive who escaped from jail earlier this year, officials said. |
Fawaz al-Rabihi was sentenced to death last year for plotting an attack in which a boat laden with explosives rammed the French oil tanker Limburg. | Fawaz al-Rabihi was sentenced to death last year for plotting an attack in which a boat laden with explosives rammed the French oil tanker Limburg. |
He was killed when security forces raided a house in the capital Sanaa. | He was killed when security forces raided a house in the capital Sanaa. |
The October 2002 bombing of the Limburg, off Yemen's south-eastern coast, killed a Bulgarian crew member and wounded 12 others. | The October 2002 bombing of the Limburg, off Yemen's south-eastern coast, killed a Bulgarian crew member and wounded 12 others. |
Rabihi was one of 13 al-Qaeda-linked militants who escaped from prison in February. | Rabihi was one of 13 al-Qaeda-linked militants who escaped from prison in February. |
The Limburg attack echoed the attack on the USS Cole two years previously. | |
On 12 October 2000, 17 US sailors were killed when suicide bombers blew themselves up on an inflatable raft next to USS Cole in the southern Yemeni port of Aden. |
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