Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says police killed four suspected terrorists believed to be linked to al-Qaeda after they fled their desert tent.
| Didn't even surround them first, did they. |
According to local media the ministry said in a statement the four suspects belonged to a "deviant group" a term used by the government to describe followers of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network. Authorities demanded the suspects surrender after surrounding the tent in a remote town some 250 kilometres north of Riyadh. But the militants refused and tried to flee in a car while hurling hand grenades.
Hokay, youse four, come out witcher hands up!"
"Go screw, coppers!"
"Hokay, let 'em have it boys!" |
And the corpse count from Rooters ...
A ministry statement said the dead included Mohammed Abdul-Rahman al-Farraj, Meshal Ubaid al-Haseri and Omar Abdullah al-Qahtani. It said they had participated in militant activities, including car bombings and assassinations.
No clue on the other two, but I believe we're holding at least one al-Qahtani down at Gitmo.
A fourth dead man was yet to be identified. State television showed automatic weapons, ammunition, grenades, explosives and false car plates seized from the four in a tent in the desert.
| What? No pakistani-made passports? Somebody's holding out here ... |
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