Saudi police check the boot of a car in Riyadh. The Interior Ministry revealed that four wanted terror suspects and a Saudi security man were killed in a shootout north of Riyadh.(AFP/File)
Posted on 05/20/2004 10:21:15 AM PDT by TexKat
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi security forces clashed with five wanted militants at a suspected hideout north of Riyadh on Thursday, killing four and wounding the fifth, a security official said.
A security agent was also killed and two others were wounded in the shootout at a house outside the town of Buraida, the official said on condition of anonymity. Buraida is one of the kingdom's fundamentalist strongholds.
The official said the men were "misguided individuals," a euphemism Saudi officials use to refer to Islamic militants. He said weapons and ammunition were found at the scene.
It was not immediately known whether the militants were on a government list of 26 most-wanted militants.
The kingdom launched a high-profile crackdown on terrorists following attacks in May and November 2003 in Riyadh. The government says it has foiled dozens of terror attacks in the kingdom since the campaign began. Most of the attacks were blamed on al-Qaida.
Saudi police check the boot of a car in Riyadh. The Interior Ministry revealed that four wanted terror suspects and a Saudi security man were killed in a shootout north of Riyadh.(AFP/File)
They're getting better at getting bad guys.
Pratice makes perfect!!
Must be those damn alcohol smugglers again.
Well, that's still stronger than how Reuters refers to them.
Only a few thousand to go before they kill more terrorists per year than they PRODUCE.
At least the AP got around to using the term "terrorists" in the last paragraph.
Hmm. Definitely a new term.
...And they're getting a lot of practice!
First Mullah Omar's bodyguards, now this good news.
The first four were the lucky ones, the fifth one, however... Below, we see Saudi security forces preparing to remove the bullets from the surviving "misquided individual".
It's Miller Time in Saudi Arabia.
--Boot Hill
Late with their check.
You have to wonder in this case whether AP got the headline wrong, only to get it right in the end.
Nevermind. I guess the writer added the security agent to the four terrorists killed.
Snip from another thread:
It is well known that many of the September 11 hijackers were Saudis. It is not well known that thirteen of the 19 suicide attackers on 9-11 came from villages in the southern part of the kingdom. Six family names were of particular interest to investigators: Al Shehri, Ahmed, Al Suquami, Al Ghamdi, Al Omari and Al Hanzi. All of these were from the Assir region* and a part of two influential clans, the Hamedi* and the Sharahni*. These clans are breeding grounds for radical Wahhabite groups, part of the Salafiyya movement (from al-salaf al-salih, the “virtuous forefathers”) in *opposition to the monarchy* because it did not practice a pure form of Islam. The two clans were the impetus behind the rise of the Islamic Resurgence Movement that was headed by two young ulamas (religious men), Safar al-Hawali, a teacher at the Oum Al Qora university in Mecca, and Salman al-Awdah, a cleric who was practicing in the town of Buraida.1[1”Saudi Regime’s Underpinnings are Shaken,” Intelligence Online, October 18, 2001.]
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