Posted on 02/27/2006 8:29:14 PM PST by PrinceOfCups
ABQAIQ. Friday 4.30 p.m. A security camera in the oil processing facility captures five people escaping in a Toyota Land Cruiser as security men battle the occupants of two cars which storm past the first checkpoint, killing two guards.
A coded message is immediately flashed to security patrols. As the Land Cruiser makes its way toward Dammam a vehicle follows it from a distance. The Land Cruiser takes the exit for Riyadh and speeds away toward the capital. The vehicle alerts security patrols ahead.
For two days the movement of the five people are closely monitored.
Monday. Riyadh 4.00 a.m. Residents of the Al-Yarmuk quarter in east Riyadh where several Western compounds are located wake up to loud sounds and police car sirens. Smoke billows out of a rest house in the neighborhood. Exchange of gunfight traps about two dozen worshipers in the mosque. They see aberrations outside, shouting and running here and there.
Two ghostly figures try to run out of the rest house, lobbing grenades toward security men. A flash of instant fire erupts from the other end, and they collapse to the ground.
6.00 a.m. Shootout ends. By now the area is under siege. Police patrol cars and ambulance are everywhere as two helicopters hover overhead.
Three bodies are retrieved from near a gas station in the area. Two other bodies are brought from a rest house which is riddled with bullets.
A large quantity of arms and explosives as well as materials for making bombs are recovered from the villa.
Five people were killed in a rest house in eastern Riyadh and the sixth was arrested at a location that should not be revealed now for security reasons, Lt. General Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman of the Ministry of Interior, announces as the news like wildfire spreads.
The media and inquisitive onlookers gather at the site.
We believe that all the men involved had something to do with Abqaiq attempt but the details will be announced in the official statement later following the result of the DNA test, Al-Turki said.
The security forces asked them repeatedly to surrender but they answered by showering them with fire from their hideouts which forced them to answer back, he said.
After an intense shootout, he elaborated, the security forces succeeded in killing all the five terrorists.
Al-Turki said the security men confiscated weapons and ammunition as well as materials destined to prepare car bombs from the house in Al-Yarmuk where the suspects had been holed up but he declined to get into details about the quantity or type of weapons that were found.
All what I can say is that we found weapons and the experts are dealing with it, he said.
The five dead men were said to be on a Saudi most-wanted list of 36 suspected Al-Qaeda militants.
One of those killed is the leader of the group that attacked Abqaiq, a ministry source added.
The list
Before Monday s clashes 22 militants on the 36-most-wanted list remained at large. Authorities said when the list was released last June 21 of those named were believed to be outside the country.
According to the latest official figures, at least 90 civilians, 52 security personnel and at least 123 militants have died since the unrest erupted.
Hundreds more have been wounded.
Hmm... I see "aberrations... running here and there" all the time where I live - there's preciously little besides "aberrations", to tell the truth.
Listening.
Every movie has at least one car chase scene...
Saudi Arabia is having a hard time putting the genie back in the bottle.
Yeah, this rest house was apparently right beside the mosque. Kind of like how the pastor's home is often right beside the church. Or maybe it was part of the mosque.
maybe but maybe not this site seems to indicate that the Saudis have alot of success at killing the bad guys. Interesting site too
http://63.247.134.60/~pobbs/archives/002800two_more_of_saudis_most_wanted_terrorists_killed.html
I love the Saudi MOst wanted photos and results very graphic
ping
bttt
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