A message purportedly from Al Qaeda vowed to avenge the killing of suspected Al Qaeda chief by Saudi security forces earlier this week, a man the group identified in a statement yesterday as a former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.
| "Yar! We be Islamists with automatic weapons!" |
Khaled Ali Haj, who is from Yemen, and a Saudi accomplice were killed on Monday in a shootout with Saudi police in a residential area in Riyadh.
A statement, signed by Al Qaeda network, said he had been killed while heading out on a "mission."
| As opposed to a private affair given all those explosives he was carrying at the time ... |
The statement was carried on an Islamic website that has often published claims of Al Qaeda-related attacks and operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen or Spain. The statement also warned Saudi police, security agents and members of the intelligence forces not to "harm the mujahideen (holy fighters) because targeting them (authorities) ... in their homes or workplace is a very easy matter."
| After all, they own the religious cops and a good chunk of the Interior Ministry, plus they've got al-Hawali to run interference for them with the Clown Prince ... |
Meanwhile, Yemen and Saudi security authorities exchanged 23 terror suspects, including a militant linked to Al Qaeda, a security official said in Yemeni capital San'a yesterday.
| That's good. At least this means that they'll burn rather than escape from whatever prison they end up in ... |
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