Al Queda on the Roof

Interpol has issued "an urgent global security alert" after 23 "dangerous individuals" -- including a man identified as the mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole in 2000 -- escaped from a Yemeni prison. Jamal Ahmed Badawi was sentenced to death in 2004 for his role in plotting the attack that claimed the lives of 17 U.S. sailors, but had more recently gained some notoriety in a role of a much different sort. For the past two seasons, Badawi had been performing two shows a night as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof" with the Yemeni Prison Players. When the show closed after a two year run, Badawi lost interest in his rehabilitation and fled. "We had a good little run there," he remarked after beating a guard to death on his way out of the prison. Asked if it was difficult for him to play a Jew, Badawi shouted, "Those actors in 'Brokeback Mountain' are not gay and yet you do not ask them the same question. Acting is acting," he said, before adding, "Death to the infidels."