Posted on 09/07/2005 4:00:18 AM PDT by Wiz
JEDDAH/DAMMAM, 7 September 2005 — Saudi security forces stormed a major Al-Qaeda hide-out in the eastern city of Damman yesterday, killing all terrorists inside. Four security men were also killed in the operation.
In a brief statement, the Interior Ministry said security forces had “ended their operations,” which began Sunday in the main city of Eastern Province, losing four men, in addition to 10 wounded.
Police are purging the site (of the siege) where “charred remains” were found, the ministry said without giving the number of suspected militants killed. The reference to “charred remains” suggested some of the militants had blown themselves up.
An official earlier said five militants, in addition to two policemen, were killed in the confrontation, which started with a shootout in another neighborhood Sunday. Those casualties preceded the storming of the hide-out in the Al-Hamra district of Dammam, which is just 10 kilometers away from the oil center of Dhahran.
Witnesses saw ambulances and civil defense vehicles entering the scene of the gunbattle, which was cordoned off. Clashes intensified in the run-up to the raid. At one point, the thud of explosions could be heard across the city at the rate of one per minute, residents said. Saudi special forces stormed the building at 1 p.m. yesterday after intensive gunfire had weakened the militants over the last two days. They also cut electricity and water to the building.
Informed sources told Arab News that a militant who tried to run away from the building was gunned down by security men yesterday morning. Militants killed one of their colleagues when he attempted to surrender to security authorities on Monday.
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and I'll end the morning on a good note!
The reference to “charred remains” suggested some of the militants had blown themselves up.
Perhaps the smell of napalm in the morning?
One can only hope that the manufacturer mixed in some lard. ;-)
Short answer, yes
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Has anybody been looking recently at the reports of what's happening in Iraq? It looks like we're grabbing more and more of the bad guys and there seem to have been a lot fewer successful IED attacks than there were even a few weeks ago.
What I've noticed is that more of the attacks are going toward the Iraqi forces.
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