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Two get death for USS Cole attack
Wednesday, 29 September 2004 16:27
A Yemeni court has sentenced two men to death over the bomb attack on the USS Cole, which killed 17 people four years ago.
Four others were given between five and ten years in jail for the attack, which was blamed on Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
In October 2000, two attackers rammed the destroyer with a small boat laden with explosives in the port of Aden.
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The Yemeni court identified the suicide bombers as Ibrahim al-Thour and Hassan al-Khamri.
The two militants facing the death sentence are Jamal al-Badawi and Abd al-Rhami al Nashiri, who is currently in US custody and was tried in absentia.
The defendants' lawyers said they planned to appeal.
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