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  • Saudi turns his back on jihad

    07/28/2007 11:02:56 AM PDT · by Wiz · 31 replies · 887+ views
    Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2007 Jul 29 | Donna Abu-Nasr
    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The last time Ahmed al-Shayea was in the news, he was in the hospital at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, being treated for severe burns from the truck bomb he had driven into the Iraqi capital on Christmas Day, 2004. Today, he says, he has changed his mind about waging jihad, or holy war, and wants other young Muslims to know it. He wants them to see his disfigured face and fingerless hands, to hear how he was tricked into driving the truck on a fatal mission, to believe his contrition over having put his...
  • Defectors from the Jihad

    07/29/2007 4:43:02 AM PDT · by Valin · 20 replies · 1,792+ views
    The Corner ^ | 7/28/07 | Michael Ledeen
    There are two recent defections worthy of notice. One is a Saudi who thought he was going to fight against us in Iraq, but his own brothers blew him up en route. The other is the founder of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, whence came Ayman al Zawahiri, currently number one (or, if you insist on believing bin Laden is still alive, number two) of al Qaeda. The Saudi is Ahmed al-Sheayea, and he went to Iraq via Syria back in 2004 to wage jihad. They told him to drive a truck bomb across town, and they exploded it before he got...