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| Seven wounded in Saudi mosque shooting |
| 2003-01-11 |
| Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested a man after he allegedly opened fire with a machine gun in a mosque, wounding a relative and several other worshippers. Authorities said the man, identified as 32-year-old Raja al-Arjani, became angry when his relative married his ex-wife despite being told not to. "Jerry Springer! Call your office!" He is said to have stormed into the mosque in the al-Kharj province, shooting his relative as well as worshippers from Sudan, Yemen, Egypt and Syria, the French news agency AFP reported. "If I can't have her, ain't nobody can have her!" The al-Kharj Governor, Prince Abdul Rahman bin Nasser, said the gunman had recently been fired from the country's National Guard for failing to turn up for duty. He added that the assailant had confessed to the shooting. "I dunnit, an' I'm glad!... Sa-a-a-ay! That ain't... That ain't... a scimitar? Al-Kharj houses the Prince Sultan air base, where around 5,000 US troops are stationed. Makes you wonder what actually happened, doesn't it? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 *taps sympathy meter, which budges not at all* |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-01-11 19:07:45 |