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| Wanted Terrorist Surrenders |
| 2005-07-02 |
| A wanted militant whose name has appeared on a list of 36 terror suspects surrendered to Saudi security authorities yesterday amid press reports three others on the same list had died in Iraq. The Interior Ministry confirmed that Fayez Ibrahim Ayub, who is No. 29 on the list, had surrendered to authorities after returning from abroad yesterday âto explain his true position,â the Saudi Press Agency quoted a ministry official as saying. The official said Ayubâs family would be allowed to meet him and his surrender would be taken into consideration while looking into his case. âNormal measures will be taken to ascertain his position,â he added. Press reports, meanwhile, said three men on the list â Saudi Faris Abdullah Al-Dhahiry Al-Harbi, Chadian Noor Mohamed Moussa and Saudi Ali Mater Al-Osaimi â had been killed fighting alongside insurgents in Iraq. Al-Harbi is reported to have died in a suicide operation in November last year. The Saudi government has not yet confirmed the reports. Also yesterday, one of the imams of the Grand Mosque in Makkah called upon terrorists in the Kingdom to surrender to authorities and repent for their mistakes in order to end the bloodbath among Muslims. Delivering his Friday sermon, Sheikh Saleh ibn Mohamed Al-Taleb expressed deep sorrow over the killings of Muslims in the land of the two holy mosques. âIs it not time to end this bloodbath?â he asked. The imam was apparently referring to the recent murder of Lt. Col. Mubarak Al-Sawat, a top investigation officer in Makkah, and other terrorist attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda militants. âWe appeal to those who have broken away from the true Islamic group to return and those who made mistakes to repent and surrender to authorities in order to clear away the suspicions surrounding them,â Al-Taleb said. The imam said he hoped Saudi authorities would look into the cases of those who surrender âwith understanding, wisdom and mercy.â |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 SpoD, it isn't fair to expect logic from those incapable of it. ;-) So what were you doing in Iraq? Can you tell us? And what-all did you see there? Inquiring minds want to know. (Yes, nosy is another word!) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-07-02 18:23 |
| #1 Hmmm, so three others on the list died in Iraq??? Well I bet that gets played up in the press. You know, for it to be an INSURGENCY in a country, shouldn't most of those fighting be FROM the country in which the fighting is occurring? How can you have a revolt when most of the fighters are foreign and killing citizens of the country they are trying to free from occupation? I was in Iraq a year ago and was told most of the people we were killing were either Iranian, Saudi or Syrian. I want to scream every time I hear one of those freaking communists in our media refer to it as an insurgency. IT IS NOT AN INSURGENCY!!! It is not civil war, it is TERRORISM. |
| Posted by: SockPuppetofDoom2 2005-07-02 12:00 |