Posted on 01/03/2005 6:27:27 AM PST by pickemuphere
12:19pm (UK) Saudi Student Was Mess Tent Suicide Bomber
The suicide bomber who killed 22 people when he blew himself up in a US army mess tent the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, was a Saudi medical student, an Arab newspaper reported today.
Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat identified him as 20-year-old Ahmed Said Ahmed al-Ghamdi, citing friends of the man’s father.
The friends said members of an Iraqi resistance group contacted al-Ghamdi’s father to tell him his son was the suicide bomber who carried out the December 21 attack, the deadliest on an American installation in Iraq.
US officials have said their investigation indicates the bomber was dressed in an Iraqi military uniform – but was not an Iraqi soldier – when he slipped into a mess tent packed with soldiers eating lunch in northern Iraq.
The father refused to discuss the suicide bombing, but told the newspaper his son had gone to Iraq to fight the Americans and had died there.
The paper did not name the Iraqi resistance group. But Ansar al-Sunnah, a radical Islamic Iraqi group that has been active in northern Iraq, claimed responsibility for the mess tent attack.
A Saudi? Who would have thunk it.
14 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi...
Never trust a saudi...
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Good post, thanks.
ME types never used to mean anything either positive or negative to me, until now. You cannot now know for certain that even your ME doctor, an immigrant US citizen, does not hate this country and wish to destroy it.
At some point we need to get to that nation and make a permanent change.
You can't have some leaders say they are against terror and other parts for it, funding it and motivating it.
If 40% of their country is behind this type of stuff, then frankly, 40% need to be killed off.
Seems Muslim is a "cult", not a religion.
They need to be handled as such until the cult can change it's worship practice as to no produce terrorists.
Agree. Brainwashing from birth to death isn't a religion. Imagine all those people - they're nothing but animals now - grieving over Arafart's death. The animal who made their lives the living hell they seem to permanently reside in was revered and mourned throughout the ME. Unbelievable.
But, but ---- the Saudi's are our friends.......aren't they????
And watch the lefties say that these are poor, uneducated people who are rising up in rebellion--just like they do with the Palestinian murderers.
Special Analysis: The Al-Ghamdi Family
And that's from June of 2003.
Somebody needs to do some serious tune-up work on that clan.
WHAT IF: We teamed up with Osama, turned out sights 180 degrees and marched to Mecca. Just wondering....
Maybe I am wrong and the father is innocent... but I think some "wet work" is called for ... kill the med student's entire family, and make it blindingly obvious that you committing jihad means you are dooming your entire immediate family.
One Nuclear bomb on Mecca should do the trick.
Yes. And islam is a religion of peace...
*sigh* Yup.
The question now is how did this bomb laden 20 year old Saudi student get into the mess tent in the middle of a US base? What about security?
The building isn't the problem, it seems to be with 40% or more of the people of the Muslim faith.
I hate to draw a Vietnam analogy, but this is eerily similar to what happened there. The same people who would work for you and pretend to be friendly, would also kill you without batting an eye. Word to the wise -- don't trust any Middle Easterners -- you might lose your head.
"How did a bomb laden 20 yr old get on base?" Good question. I understand it's common practice to allow non-military(indigenous) workers on base. At the very least u must assume the bad guys are using the op to gather intell.
"SA is a viper pit."
Yeah, and a knotty one. The current regime supplies our oil but can only stay legit in the eyes of its people by brainwashing them with this extreme Wahabism [sp?] form of Islam and essentially paying off trouble makers to kick up a fuss elsewhere. They are our ally and our enemy...but also Bin Laden's ally and enemy.
We have backed ourselves into a nasty corner with this one, ostensibly promoting democracy in the MEast but sucking up to one of the most repressive regimes in the region and thereby enflaming the clued-up members of the population against us. I mean, you've got to support Saudis who are against their govt, who want to overthrow it and replace it with something else, right? Sooner or later a repressed population fights back. But then where does that leave us?
Yeah, a simmering nasty alright.
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