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Arabia
Saudis identify suicide bomber, confirm link to IS
2015-05-24
[IsraelTimes] Authorities say jihadist who killed 21 Shiite worshippers was wanted by security services for terror connections

Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
on Saturday identified the jacket wallah who on Friday killed 21 worshipers at a mosque for the minority Shiite community and confirmed his link to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

"His name was Salih bin Abdulrahman Salih al-Ghishaami, a Saudi national," the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

"He was wanted by security services for belonging to a terrorist cell receiving directions from Daesh abroad," it said, using the Arabic acronym for IS.

On Friday IS said it was behind the murders, the first time the group has officially claimed an attack in Saudi Arabia.

But it identified the bomber as Abu Amer al-Najdi.

"The cell was discovered last month, and so far 26 of its members, all Saudi nationals, have been tossed in the clink
You have the right to remain silent...
," the interior ministry said.

"The criminal investigation lab examined the remains of the terrorist's body and the scene of the crime, and it was determined that the type of explosives used was RDX."
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  In Pakistan it'd be "the spot."
Posted by: Pappy   2015-05-24 19:35  

#2  Well, there was the spot.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-05-24 16:16  

#1  Yes, those were his shoes!! The rest, hard to say.
Posted by: Steven   2015-05-24 03:19  

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