Thirteen al Qaeda terrorists tunneled a way out a Yemeni jail at the intelligence headquarters in the capital Sana'a to a nearby mosque. Jamal al-Badawi, the ringleader of the USS Cole bombing of 2000 that claimed the lives of 17 US sailors was one of those who escaped. This is his second jailbreak; an earlier attempt saw him make a hole through prison walls in 2003 but was subsequently captured. Badawi was originally sentenced to death but on appeal the sentence was commuted to imprisonment for 15 years. Four of his accomplices in the USS Cole also escaped along with Fawaz al-Rabe'ie, the ringleader who bombed French oil tanker Limburg spilling 90,000 barrels of  oil.