The Great Escape

No wonder they claw their way out of jail

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / September 19, 2014 / 2014, humour / satire, terror, terrorism, The Great Escape, Yemeni jails, Yemeni justice / 4 minutes of reading

Finally, to add to what started with this one and complete this trilogy of posts this week on the news that 19 Somalis were just arrested in Kampala for allegedly plotting to blow some unknown place to Kingdom Come, the only other note to add is that one hopes that jails in Uganda are more secure than jails in Yemen. Yemen, of course, is […]

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No wonder they claw their way out of jail

Leave a Comment / London Free Press, Newspaper columns / May 23, 2003 / 2003, terrorism, terrorist escapes, The Great Escape, USS Cole, Yemeni death penalty, Yemeni justice, Yemeni prisons / 4 minutes of reading

Just when the Yankee cat turns its back to focus on Iraq, the Yemeni mice go out to play. A gang of al-Qaeda-type jailbirds, including two held as key suspects in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, have apparently vanished from a jail in Aden for good.

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