Posted on 07/26/2004 7:16:38 PM PDT by nuconvert
Saudi Arabia Al-Qaida Cell Acknowledges Deaths of Three Members, Says Battle Was to Defend Leader's Wife
By Sarah El Deeb/Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A message purportedly from an al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia surfaced Monday with the acknowledgment that three of its militants were killed in a shootout last week with security forces. In the statement, which was found on Islamic Web sites, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula gave its own account of the July 20 raid on a house in Riyadh, describing it as battle to defend the wife and family of their leader.
The house was believed to be the hideout of Saleh Mohammed al-Aoofi, the group's leader. Saudi security forces detained al-Aoofi's wife and three children after raiding the house and finding the head of slain American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr.
The statement described a fierce battle with security forces, who blocked the house's exits with five cars that they set on fire.
The Interior Ministry said last week that two militants were killed and three were injured in the battle. Three security forces members were also injured.
The online statement acknowledged that Issa Saad Mohammed bin Oushan, who was on Saudi Arabia's most-wanted list, and Mujab Abu-Ras Al-Dossary were killed in the raid. It said one of the three injured, Mashaal bin al-Sheik Hamoud al-Faraj, later died from his wounds.
"Al-Aoofi insisted that the mujahedeen should go out and leave her (al-Aoofi's wife), after they nearly killed themselves in her defense, the mujahedeen decided to (pull out), and that happened with God's grace and no one of the brothers were hurt during it," the statement said.
Security forces seized weapons - including an anti-aircraft SAM-7 missile - explosives, chemicals, video cameras and cash from the al-Qaida house.
God rest Mr. Johnson's soul.
Al Qaeda leadership are cowards. Their soldiers were defending the guy's wife, and he told them to "leave her"!! Nice.
When we think of "women and children first" we think of offering them the life boat, the ladder to escape the fire, etc.
When they (Al Q) think "women and children first" they think of using their bodies first as human shields, sacrificial lambs, etc.
But the good part of the story is that the Saudi security forces were playing hardball with this Al Q leader. "Turn yourself in or we have a party with your family."
Okay, I'm finally starting to think that the Saudi royals may finally have gotten the picture somewhat.
Yep, in the freezer.
I wouldn't jump to conclusions..
In a nation with the majority in support of Al-Qaida - the House of Saud can "sacrific" a few dozen lunatics to cover their own asses a while longer.....
Semper Fi
yep. And they'd try to ransom the head for money.
I hope you're correct. The thing we need to understand is this is part of an ongoing war inside the family Saud. I'd feel a lot better if I saw the Saudi royal family shutting down places like this
The Religious Policeman
A Saudi man's diary of life in the "Magic Kingdom", where the Religious Police ensure that everything remains as it was in the Middle Ages
http://muttawa.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_muttawa_archive.html#108660623922647271
Monday, June 07, 2004
My Favorite University
Good News from Terrorist Academy
Academic Warns Against Linking Terrorism With Imam Saud University
RIYADH, 7 June 2004 — Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh has registered four candidates for a research program into the causes of terrorism. The research could lead to Master’s degree or PhD.
I can't think of a better place to study terrorists in their native habitat. After all, if you're going to research Giant Turtles, you've got to go to the Galapagos Islands, right?
The university has come under fire after the Ministry of Interior revealed that nine on a list of 26 most wanted terror suspects were IMSIU graduates.
Look, we've explained all this before. It's a freak of statistics. They could equally have been graduates of West Point. Or the French Culinary Institute. Or the Little Red Hen Kindergarten.
Al-Hamoud said it was important to remember that students do not spend more than five or six hours a day for five days at the university. “The rest of the time they are outside where they are interacting with (other) members of society or otherwise exposed to the mass media,” he said. “Their social behavior is accordingly shaped by their perception of what they see, hear or think.
Quite right. The university cannot be blamed. There are outside influences - they chat with their friends in coffee shops, who just happen to be student imams as well. They go to the mosque, and get preached at by the Imam University class of '97. (What they don't do is use the sports facilities. A healthy mind needs a healthy body. But if you don't want a healthy mind, no need to exercise, right?)
Their individual response is the sum total of all that is happening around them, be it the Israeli actions against Palestinians, the bombings of innocent people in Afghanistan, or torture of prisoners in Iraq. How does the university then come into the picture?”
But they are not, apparently, influenced by Muslims setting fire to Hindus in India, or shooting Christians in Pakistan, or blowing up Jews in Israel, or killing just about anyone that moves here in Saudi Arabia. They are very selective in their compassion.
Charges against the university were part of a Western “campaign against Islam and Muslims,” he said.
It's all your fault. You're always blaming me, it's just not fair. I never asked to be born.
Asked whether IMSIU had plans for academic reforms, Al-Hamoud said: “Yes, we do have a plan. But if you are relating it to the ongoing campaign against Islam, the answer is no.
On the other hand, maybe. It all depends what you mean by "has". Really, you're asking the wrong question. This is the Dean of Mass Communications, quoting from the Advanced Waffling and Evasion module. Or maybe he's just plain confused.
A revised syllabus would include some textbooks dealing with terrorism.
You can already get those on the Internet. "The Anarchist's Cookbook", things like that.
“We also plan to invite scholars for a dialogue to promote better understanding between Islam and the West,” he added.
I would like to invite a team of bulldozers. And what better place to send all these keen Muslim scholars, than as missionaries to the more remote parts of sub-saharan Africa. As for the teaching staff, whose complete lack of leadership and whose moral and intellectual bankruptcy is demonstrated in this interview, there are major sewage problems in Jeddah that require laborers who don't mind the stench of what is around them. There I go, dreaming again.
Posted by: Alhamedi / 1:06 PM| Comment (0)
More dead terrorists. Good.
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