Alsahwa.net

April 10, 2008- US Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller asked during his meeting with the Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh On Wednesday to extradite Jamal al-Badawi who is suspected with bombing the USS Cole destroyer in the Yemeni port of Aden in order to prosecute him in an American court, U.S. Embassy source told Alsahaw.net.

The source pointed out that Mueller further discussed with Saleh issues of combating terrorism and updates of the investigations on the attacks which targeted the U.S. embassy on March 18 and the housing compound of Hadda on April 6.

FBI director said to Yemeni officials that the US embassy ordered non-essential staff and their families to leave Yemen due to those attacks which targeted the embassy and American oilmen , said the source.

Saleh had stressed, according to Saba agency, Yemen's insistence to enhance ties and mutual cooperation with U.S., renewing Yemen's demands of releasing Sheikh Mohammad al-Moayad and his companion Mohammad Zayed imprisoned in New York along with all Yemenis prisoners detained in Guantanamo .