 SANAA - Yemeni security forces on Sunday killed the alleged mastermind of the bombing of the French oil tanker Limburg in 2002 and a second suspected Al Qaeda fugitive, both of whom who broke out of jail earlier this year, a security official said. Fawaz Al Rabihi, who was convicted of plotting the 2002 bombing of the French supertanker Limburg, “was killed in a shootout with security forces in a suburb of Sanaa, where he was hiding in a house,” the official told AFP.
“Security forces also killed Mohammed Dailami,” another suspected Al Qaeda operative who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2004 for his role in a number of plots including an attempted attack in 2002 against a US Hunt helicopter, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Dailami was hiding in the same house as Rabihi,” the official added.
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The two were among 23 Al Qaeda suspects who walked dug tunneled strolled broke out of their detention facility in Sanaa in February 2006.
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Rabihi was sentenced to death in 2004 for his role in the attack on the French tanker, which killed a crewmember and injured 12, but broke out of prison with 22 other suspected Al Qaeda members in February. |