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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims' relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.

http://www.globalterroralert.com http://www.globalterroralert.com/saudi0904-02.pdfGlobalterroralert.com (9/21/04): Al-Qaida's Committee in Saudi Arabia has taken credit for last week's murder of Briton Edward Stuart Muirhead-Smith, 56 years old, in the parking lot of the Max shopping center in the eastern part of Riyadh. Saudi media sources reported that two un-identified male perpetrators in a white Toyota car shot Smith four times as he sat in his own vehicle. The men quickly fled and have remained at large from pursuing Saudi security forces.

AL-QAEDA has named Saleh Al-Awfi, a disgraced former prison guard and ex-Madina car dealer, as Abdul Aziz Al-Muqrin s successor to head the terrorist organization s Saudi Arabia cell, according to sources. Al-Awfi s reported appointment demonstrates the damage Al-Qaeda sustained when Al-Muqrin, responsible for the Friday beheading of American Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr., was killed by security forces several hours later in a firefight in Riyadh. Muqrin was killed with three other extremists identified by security forces as Faisal Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Dakheel, Fehaid Al-Mutairi and Ibrahim Al-Duraihem. Meanwhile, the search for Johnson s body continued late Sunday with...