 Saudi security forces have arrested two men who confessed to killing a French engineer in the Red Sea city of Jeddah in September, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Laurent Barbot, a 45-year-old infidel technical assistant for French electronics group Thales, was shot twice with an automatic rifle and found dying at the wheel of his sports utility vehicle on September 26. Quoting security sources, the Okaz newsaper named one of those arrested as Hamad al-Saadi and the second only by his family name of al-Sameery. It said the pair had "confessed to the crime" of killing Barbot. It said Saadi, described as the head of the Al-Jamia cell, named after a neighbourhood in Jeddah, carried out the murder while Sameery was in charge of plotting and preparing for the killing. A weapon found in "the den of the Jamia cell" where the two suspects were arrested, matched the type of bullets used in the attack, the paper said. However, an interior ministry spokesman, quoted by the official SPA news agency, said the "information related to the confessions of Hamad al-Saadi on the murder of Frenchman Laurent Barbot in Jeddah is not accurate." | I hate it when the state-run newspapers don't get their stories straight with the ministries. |
"Investigation procedures on the incident are not finished," the spokesman added, making no reference to the second reported suspect.| Oops. Maybe they caught a son of a favored tribe with his hand in the jihadi jar. |
| That's the one they cut off, right? |
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