Trouble in Saudi Arabia: Al-Qaeda’s ‘Bum’ Assassination Attempt

Pajamas Media ^ | Sept. 24 | Annie Jacobsen

[AJKauf]

Interior Minister Prince Nayef of Saudi Arabia and his son, Deputy Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, have many enemies. For decades, the powerful and unaccountable elder Prince Nayef has “overseen” the Saudi police force; Nayef once boasted that his law enforcement agency solves 100 percent of the kingdom’s annual crimes.

Al-Qaeda was quick to take credit for the suicide bombing (according to SITE). After all, it was a major public relations coup. For starters, the royals had been tricked — promised surrender and instead given a Trojan horse. Saudi’s princes pride themselves on having impenetrable personal security systems. Instead, this recent incident revealed a major flaw in the royal armor, not to mention in the country’s airline security system. Al-Qaeda was quick to point out (through jihadist websites) that al-Asiri had passed through two major security checkpoints, in the Najran and Jeddah airports, before boarding a royal jet with explosives hidden up his bum.

A bomb hidden in his anal cavity? Why does this sound so terribly familiar?...

[Niuhuru]

Well, I daresay that this is a new one. I do not doubt that instead of calling all homosexual fudgepackers, now we have to start differentiating due to different cultural norms.

Now we call Arab homosexuals “bomb packers.”

[G8 Diplomat]

Nayef regularly uses torture to elicit confessions from Saudi nationals as well as visitors from other countries

Even the Saudis don't worry about waterboarding and whatnot. WTF is up with Congress & 0bummer?

This story reminds me of the "exploding underwear" story I read last summer. Pakistani Taliban invented that little item in the hope that it would get them past security checkpoints. It did not.

[Freddd]

And how many know the Rockefeller’s got their oil wealth through the Saudi’s??????

Yet they claim other’s got rich from ‘big oil’....

[silverleaf]

I have bad visuals of what new round of searches TSA plans to impose on randomly selected US citizens

Bend over Granny

[OB1kNOb]

Oh Great! Now we have to worry about terrorist bummers!

[agere_contra]

Here's the thing.

This Islamic Bum-Bomber blew himself up and didn't manage to take out his target, who was right next to him.

Bum-Bombing doesn't work, and no amount of rectal-rocketry can make it work: you've essentially wrapped yourself around your own explosive.

This new form of terrorism is hell on carpet-cleaners, but that's all.

[Zhang Fei]

And how many know the Rockefeller’s got their oil wealth through the Saudi’s??????

Saudi oil was discovered in 1938. Extraction began after WWII. The Rockefeller fortune was built way before then:

Notwithstanding these varied aspects of his public life, Rockefeller may ultimately be remembered simply for the raw size of his wealth. In 1902, an audit showed Rockefeller was worth about $200 million—compared to the total national GDP of $24 billion then.[26] His wealth continued to grow significantly (in line with U.S. economic growth) after as the demand for gasoline soared, eventually reaching about $900 million on the eve of the First World War, including significant interests in banking, shipping, mining, railroads, and other industries. According to the New York Times obituary, “it was estimated after Mr. Rockefeller retired from business that he had accumulated close to $1,500,000,000 out of the earnings of the Standard Oil trust and out of his other investments. This was probably the greatest amount of wealth that any private citizen had ever been able to accumulate by his own efforts.”[27] By the time of his death in 1937, Rockefeller's remaining fortune, largely tied up in permanent family trusts, was estimated at $1.4 billion, while the total national GDP was $92 billion.[28] According to some methods of wealth calculation, Rockefeller's net worth over the last decades of his life would easily place him as the wealthiest known person in recent history. As a percentage of the United States' GDP, no other American fortune — including those of Bill Gates or Sam Walton — would even come close.

[texas booster]

Please jump to the link to get the full story.

It is well known that Al Queda uses mules for dry runs of terrorists attacks, and just to see what can be snuck past security.

Here is the relevant passage that needs to be considered before joking about the Preparation H-C4, or other means of therapeutic stress relief:

A little over two years ago, on March 6, 2007, a 35-year-old Iraqi national named Fadhel al-Maliki attempted to board a US Airways flight out of Los Angeles International Airport. A TSA agent noticed al-Maliki was acting odd. “He was nervous and sweating,” the FBI’s Los Angeles spokesman told me when I inquired about the incident the following day.

Hidden in al-Maliki’s rectum was a device containing electrical wires, chewing gum, and a rock. Larry Fetters, security director for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at the airport, told reporters that al-Maliki “was secreting these items in a body cavity and that was a great concern because there were also some electric wires associated with that body cavity.” In other words, TSA feared al-Maliki had a bomb.

The FBI also told me that it was al-Maliki’s behavior that triggered the discovery. The Iraqi national was asked to step aside after an agent noticed his strange behavior and became suspicion of him. After some “heavy questioning about his odd behavior” and after being repeatedly asked by federal agents “why he was sweating,” the former Iraqi security guard confessed to having the untoward items hidden where the sun does not shine. “They are for therapeutic reasons … to relieve stress,” al-Maliki told the TSA. He claimed the rock was from another planet. The bomb squad was called in.

Ultimately, no explosives were found accompanying the strange rectal contraption, but people around the country had a scatological field day with the story.

[Senator John Blutarski]

Al Qaeda is very reminiscent of the Assassin Cult of old and deserves the same type of countermeasures as then applied by the Mongols.

[darth]

What did the Mongols do? Did they succeed?

[Senator John Blutarski]

It wasn’t pretty; I can tell you that. Here is a somewhat “civilized” summation of the Mongols solution to the Assassin problem -

http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2005/07/08/how-the-mongols-quelled-the-assassins/

Unmentioned is the fact that, when the Mongols took the fortress of Alamut, they first surrounded the entire valley and exterminated every man. woman, child, and animal they found therein.

I also suggest the following as an insightful description of what the assassins were -

http://www.phinnweb.org/neuro/assassins2.html

IMO, as understanding of the assassin cult is quite helpful in understanding the mindset of fanatics like Ahmedinajad, Bin Laden et al.

[Synthex]

You say it like it is surprising Saudi Arabia does torture

Sorry, but Saudi Arabia/Iran/etc do a lot worse then Waterboarding. To innocent people, not just GITMO terrorists

[G8 Diplomat]

Oh I know that. Saudis are huge human rights violators. I didn’t mean for it to sound surprised, I was just comparing even the Saudis’ willingness to use “harsh methods” on terrorists to 0bama’s refusal too, and how pathetic that is.