Slogan’s Heroes

While the Bicycle Chief illegally mass-taps American’s phones because he doesn’t think mere law applies to His Glorious Republican Self...

While his surrogates call Democrats weak and un-American for standing between the Constitution and the Imperial wood chipper...

Under their collective noses actual, mass-murdering terrorists walk out of jail....

Cole Attack Planner Escapes Yemen Prison

By AHMED AL-HAJ, Associated Press Writer

An al-Qaida operative sentenced to death for plotting the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday in issuing a global security alert.

Officials set up checkpoints around the capital of San'a, where the prison was located, to try to catch the escapees before they could flee to the protection of mountain tribes, according to a Yemeni security official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.
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Yemeni officials said Jamal al-Badawi — a man convicted of plotting, preparing and helping carry out the Cole bombing — was among the fugitives, Interpol said. Al-Badawi was among those sentenced to death in September 2004 for plotting the attack, in which two suicide bombers blew up an explosives-laden boat next to the destroyer as it refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden on Oct. 12, 2000.

A Yemeni security official announced the escape of convicted al-Qaida members Friday but did not provide any details or names. The official said only that the escapees had all had been sentenced last year on terrorism-related charges.

Interpol said in a statement that at least 13 of the 23 escapees were convicted al-Qaida fighters.

The convicts escaped via a 140-yard-long tunnel "dug by the prisoners and coconspirators outside," Interpol said. The Yemeni official said the prison was at the central headquarters of the country's military intelligence services in a building in the center of the capital.

Another of the 23 escapees was identified as Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeiee, considered by Interpol to be one of those responsible for a 2002 attack on the French tanker Limburg off Yemen's coast. That attack killed a Bulgarian crew member and spilled 90,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Aden.
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Forget “The Shawshank Redemption”.

This wasn’t an honorable man that took twenty years to patiently excavate his way out of an unjust imprisonment.

This was “The Great Escape” staged by just about the only terrorists we have (sorry, "had") in custody who we know actually murdered Americans. Through a football-field-and-a-half-long tunnel. With what must obviously have been the substantial long-term assistance of many, many people both inside Yemen's military intelligence services and out.

And frankly this is the kind just the latest and scariest example of what happens when your entire foreign policy has been manufactured for the domestic political consumption of your base.

When you let your Smearmeister-In-Chief run the country like one, long Swiftboat Campaign and petroleum-industry fire sale, and can't be bothered to take the governance of a great nation seriously.

When you see nothing wrong with telegraphing to the entire Muslim world with every breath that you think their niche in your Fundy Ecosystem is to pump us cheap gas, drive our cabs and not make White Christian Men uncomfortable.

Or we’ll kill them.

When you decide to blow off the hard, patient, unglamorous steps necessary to actually make America safer in favor of amping up your base on cheap, quick, political meth. Feeding them fear for partisan gain, and put frat rats like Mike Brown in charging of protecting American cities from disaster, ‘cause wheeeeeeeeeee!

Who gives a fuck?

We won!

This Administration could play lawn darts in the Rose Garden with Lincoln’s shin bones…and the Red State Rush Monkeys would still vote straight-party GOP.

They could peel the flesh from Muslim women, stitch it into a quilt with threads from Christ’s winding cloth, and play naked Twister on it… and the Freepers would stand up on their hind legs and cheer.

So I have to wonder what difference it might have made if we didn’t keep hinting broadly to our “allies” that while we may need them today, we also hate them?

What the world would look like if our eye had stayed steadily focused on the people that actually attacked us instead of having our national grief and resolve hijacked by Dick Cheney and Karl Rove…to get a man like Dubya re-elected…so that politically wired thieves and incompetents like Jack Abramoff and Michael Brown could continue to feed unmolested at the public trough while the world fell apart all around them?

What difference it might have made if we were led by a team of seasoned experts and experienced statesmen with a purposeful vision of public service instead of Slogan’s Heroes?

And how long it will take Scott McClellan to insinuate that this was somehow all Bill Clinton's fault?