Posted on 06/23/2005 6:02:19 AM PDT by jmc1969
CAIRO, Egypt -- A man listed as one of Saudi Arabia's most-wanted terror suspects has reportedly been killed in Iraq.
The claim comes Thursday in an unconfirmed Web posting by the group, al-Qaida in Iraq. It says Abdullah al-Rashoud died in a U.S. airstrike during fighting in northwest Iraq. Al-Rashoud was number 24 of Saudi Arabia's 26 most-wanted. He was one of only three listed as still at large.
The posting is signed by militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It says Al-Rashoud died fighting near the border with Syria. The statement said he and his forces "killed some of the Crusaders" before the airstrikes.
Let me guess: he was the number 3 man!!
Nah, just an aide-lieutenant.
know more about htis guy??
know more about this guy??
Dang - does this mean Z isn't buried in a field near Bagdad?
The al-Qaida in Iraq statement was posted on an Islamic militant Web forum by Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, the group's media chief, who usually posts messages from the Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi.
Al-Roshoud was one of the main theologians for al-Qaida's network in Saudi Arabia, calling for a holy war against the Saudi royal family and Western interests in the Persian Gulf. He was known as the network's mufti, the authority that issues religious opinions including justifications for jihad. He studied at the Imam University in Riyadh, one of the strongholds of the Saudi radicals.
"If (the report of his death) is true, then this is another big fish that has disappeared,'' Mishari al-Dhaidi, a Saudi expert on Islamic radical groups, told The Associated Press.
At the same time, Saudi fundamentalists have played a major role in the front lines of the insurgency in Iraq, slipping into the country to join al-Zarqawi's and other groups fighting U.S. troops and their allies.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5472181.html
Thx for the info!
ping
I wonder if this is a new one, or the one we read about last week. In any case I like hearing about it.
Odd, I keep looking at the source link and it looks like it says "thecrackchannel.com"
TheKCRAChannel.com - Home
NBC TV affiliate.
www.thekcrachannel.com/
He was just doing the terrorizing Iraqi citizens won't do.
Killing bad guys ~ Bump!
Which is much better than having Saudis die flying aircraft into office buildings in the US. If we weren't in Iraq and Afghanistan, he wouldn't be, and it's probable that's what he'd be planning.
"militant"--did he wear a beret and sunglasses, and complain a lot?
How true, yet how disgusting...what is the minium age for enlistmen ((Im 16))
**Enlistment
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