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Arabia
Slain Saudi Terror Suspect Was al Qaeda Webmaster
2003-06-04
EFL
A suspected Saudi militant who was shot dead by police this week was very close to Osama bin Laden and was a key member of his al Qaeda network in the Gulf region, an Arabic newspaper reported on Wednesday. The Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat daily quoted Islamists based in London and Cairo as saying Yousuf Saleh Fahd Al-Ayeeri was the Web master of "al-Neda" site, believed to be operated by al Qaeda, and was an aide to bin Laden when the two were in Afghanistan. "He was the main link between bin Laden and fundamentalist leaders in the Gulf," one of the Islamists said.
That makes him a key controller. For a place as important as Arabia, there will be redundant lines, but it's still worth ululating about...
Saudi officials said they were checking the report. The Saudi Interior Ministry said on Sunday police shot dead Eiery and arrested another Saudi man accompanying him after they hurled hand grenades at a police patrol. Eiery was named among a list of 19 men wanted for planning "terror" attacks and for having links to al Qaeda. Saudi security sources did not name Eiery as the mastermind of the Riyadh suicide attacks but his alleged links to al Qaeda, the main suspect in the blasts and the September 2001 attacks on U.S. cities, could strengthen the case against the network. Asharq al-Awsat said Eiery was known by several aliases, including Abu Qutaibah al-Mekki and Salaheddin. It said he specialized in writing statements about al Qaeda activities in Afghanistan and reports condemning the U.S.-led war on Iraq.
Maybe he was Binny's ghost writer?
A Saudi newspaper said on Tuesday police had found on Eiery's body a letter allegedly written by bin Laden about six months ago. In February, an Islamist Web site broadcast a purported audio tape from bin Laden in which he urged Muslims to fight the United States to avert the war on Iraq.

And a little more, from Arab Times (Kuwait)...
Saturday's car chase began at a checkpoint outside Turba, 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of the northern city of Hail. The Interior Ministry official said that Alayeeri and his companion threw a hand grenade at the police during the chase, killing two officers and injuring two others. Alayeeri's companion was identified as Abdullah ibn Ibrahim ibn Abdullah Al-Shabrami, who escaped but was later arrested north of Hail. In an interview with the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, Alayeeri's father said he had not seen his son for years. "He is dead now, in a way that we wouldn't have hoped to see any of our country's son go," Saleh Alayeeri said from his home in Dammam, in the eastern part of the Kingdom.
Posted by:Steve

#5  More than 11 at a time tends to pull my pants down...
Posted by: Fred   2003-06-04 19:47:55  

#4  Don't all webmasters carry grenades?

Don't give Fred any ideas :)
Posted by: RW   2003-06-04 14:23:24  

#3  The ultimate

404 ERROR

page.
Posted by: Chuck   2003-06-04 11:04:43  

#2  Don't all webmasters carry grenades? Or is that just the Islamic ones?
Posted by: Frank G   2003-06-04 09:54:43  

#1  Oviously, I was wrong. The strikeout feature DOES work in all browsers!
Posted by: Chuck   2003-06-04 09:23:44  

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