 SANAA - Yemen offered Tuesday a reward of more than 25,000 dollars for information that could lead to the capture of any of the suspected Al Qaeda militants who escaped from jail this month. “The interior ministry guarantees total secrecy on the persons who would deliver such information,” the state news agency SABA said.
| Yeah boy, this oughta do it. |
The reward of five million riyals (25,640 dollars) is being offered for the capture of the 23 suspects who broke out of a Sanaa prison jail on February 3, embarrassing the authorities and angering the United States.
| Twenty-five thousand? I can get a home equity loan bigger than that. |
Quoting security sources, the agency also said the “authorities in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the United States are coordinating efforts to prevent the fugitives from leaving Yemen and infiltrating other countries.”
| Bottle the country up, they will. |
The agency published the names and pictures of the 23, including Jamal Badawi who was serving a 10-year sentence for the 2000 bombing of the destroyer USS Cole off the southern port of Aden, in which 17 US sailors were killed. |