ADEN, (26sep.net)- "Jamal al-Badawi, the second man who is in charge of attacking USS Cole in 2000, and a high-profile Al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, is in police custody" ,security official said to "26sep.net".

Al- Badawi gave himself up to security apparatuses on Oct 16 2007, a an interior ministry official said .

He was sentenced to death in September 2004 for the 2000 bombing of the US Navy destroyer Cole off Aden, which was claimed by Al-Qaeda, but an appeals court later commuted the sentence to 15 years in jail.