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| Terror Networks |
| Soddies detain al-Qaeda thugs |
| 2002-06-18 |
| Saudi Arabia has detained a number of Saudis and foreigners linked to al-Qaeda who were planning terror attacks in the kingdom. They were targeting a number of "vital" installations and were planning to use explosives and surface-to-air missiles. Oooh. That'd be embarrassing, wouldn't it? Might cause the U.S. to do something rash. You know how excitable they are over little things like a few thousand deaders... Among those arrested, the Saudi agency said, was a Sudanese man suspected of being an al-Qaeda cell leader who claimed to have fired a surface-to-air missile at a U.S. warplane at a Saudi air base and whose transfer to Saudi authorities had been announced earlier this week by the Sudanese government. So it wasn't exactly the Soddies who arrested him, but they were kind enough to take custody of him from the Sudanese... The Saudi press, quoting a source at the Interior Ministry, said Tuesday that six Saudis and the Sudanese citizen were arrested several months ago. Where were they arrested? In Arabia or in Sudan? I'm so confused... The Sudanese hid with the help of another group that included five Saudis and an Iraqi who later smuggled him outside the country. The second group also was arrested. Which country? Arrested by whom? That's, lessee here, six, and a Soddy, and five, and an Iraqi, that makes 13 arrested? On Sunday, the Sudanese government announced it had handed over for trial in Saudi Arabia a Sudanese man who had admitted firing a missile at a plane taking off from Prince Sultan Air Base, south of the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Last week, a U.S. official said a Sudanese man suspected of being an al-Qaeda cell leader had acknowledged shooting a shoulder-fired SA-7 surface-to-air missile at an American plane taking off from the base. We're assuming it was the same Sudanese man... Fears that a missile had been fired at a U.S. plane surfaced in May after Saudi security guards found a missile launcher tube about two miles from a runway at the desert base. It was unclear when the missile was fired. But he said he fired it in October, missed, and then ran away... The Sudanese Interior Ministry statement said the man had returned to Sudan from Saudi Arabia. The statement did not identify the man or say how or when he fled. This makes oatmeal look like raw meat! |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |