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Al-Jama'a Al-Salafiya Al-Mujahida Claims Responsibility for British Weapons Expert Death In Iraq By Joel Leyden, Israel News Agency 24 September 2003 [The Saudi Islamic clerics that Al-Jama'a Al-Salafiya Al-Mujahida have links to are radicals and not part of the Saudi establishment. Unfortunately, over the years the Saudis declined to act against them, thus providing a hothouse for their development.] An Israeli researcher has found the name of the terrorist group which murdered Ian Rimell, a 53-year-old British bomb disposal expert in Iraq on September 4. Lt. Col. Yoni Halevi, who was performing private research for the Jerusalem Center for Public...

A 53-year-old British bomb disposal expert has been killed in a roadside ambush in northern Iraq. Father-of-three Ian Rimell, from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, died, and his local bodyguard was critically injured, when they were attacked on Thursday afternoon as they drove their vehicle along a main road to Mosul. A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that a British national was killed on September 4 while working in northern Iraq. "We stand ready to offer any appropriate consular assistance to family or next of kin."