A Yemeni was sentenced to death by a court in the southern city of Ibb Saturday, May 10, for the murder of three U.S. missionaries last December in the nearby town of Jibla. Abed Abdulrazzak al-Kamel, also convicted of wounding a fourth missionary, has 15 days to appeal the verdict. He was arrested immediately after the shooting of the Americans, the first major anti-U.S. attack in Yemen since the October 2000 assault on the USS Cole in the southern port of Aden that left 17 American sailors dead. Police told the trial that Kamel, 30, had confessed to being a member of an Islamic cell and that the missionaries deserved to die because they had tried to convert Muslims to Christianity.
Kamel condemned the verdict, saying he should have been tried by an Islamic court and not a civil court. His lawyer said he would appeal against the sentence, which is usually enforced by firing squad. U.S. Baptists have run Jibla hospital since the 1960s. "The ruling is a political one and violates Islamic Sharia law," Kamel told the court in Ebb province, according to the BBC online news service. Kamel was a student at Yemen's al-Iman university - which was briefly closed last year after allegations that it was a hotbed of âIslamic militancyâ.
"There ain't nothin' in the Koran that says you can't kill Christians! What kinda Muslims are you guys?"
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A Nepalese convicted of murder and an Afghani found guilty of drug trafficking were beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia Friday, the interior ministry said. The Nepalese man, Kioual Man Limbou, was executed in the northwestern region of Tabuk for killing two women and a man and wounding a child, all members of the same Saudi family, "with a truncheon," the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. Sultan Khan Osman Omrah, an Afghani, was convicted of drug trafficking after he was arrested for trying to smuggle "a quantity of hashish" into the kingdom and was executed in Wadi Dawasser in the Riyadh region, it said.
Though, I'll admit, they do have a low recidivism rate...
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Yes, but do they also paint shark faces on their warplanes? If they do, Maggie Drabble may have another nervous breakdown.
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Hey, one of my my uncles-in-law used to be a nepalese, a limbou specifically (and an ex-gurkha, for you military-buffs type, now owning a restaurant in Scotland)! I know these family names are actually kind of clan/cast denominators, but Kioul Man probably was a remote relative. Weird.
Suspected terrorists who had been planning attacks in Saudi Arabia targeted the royal family as well as American and British interests, and received orders directly from Osama bin Laden, a senior security official said Thursday.
They take this sort of thing a lot more seriously when it's their own necks on the line, don't they? If the targets had been Abdullah and Mahmoud, down in the public housing development, betcha it would have been alk runners again...
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the prime targets were directly ordered by Osama bin Laden and [were] the prime targets were the defense minister, Prince Sultan, and his brother, the interior minister, Prince Nayef. On Wednesday, authorities said they foiled plans by at least 19 suspected terrorists to carry out strikes and seized a large cache of weapons and explosives in the capital. All escaped after a gunfight with police. In remarks published Thursday, Prince Nayef said the men could be linked to bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, which now was "weak and almost nonexistent." Nayef said the men, raised in Afghanistan, included 17 Saudis, an Iraqi holding Kuwaiti and Canadian citizenship, and a Yemeni. "These men have only one goal in mind: Jihad (holy war) ... They have been brainwashed," he said.
Gosh. Wonder who aided and abetted that?
Their names and pictures were shown on state-run Saudi television Wednesday, and a reward of 200,000 riyals (US $53,300) has been offered to anyone turning in any of the suspects. The confiscated weapons included hand grenades, five suitcases of explosives, rifles and ammunition, as well as computers, communications equipment and cash, officials said.
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Think the Saudi elite will find out someday that they were funding their own assasinations? Won't that be a hoot!
This may actually be a sign that the security services are thoroughly penetrated by the terrorist groups. It's the easiest thing in the world to fake a gunfight.
The father of Muhammad Othman Al-Shahri, one of the 19 suspects, condemned the groupâs plan to undermine the Kingdom. He said his son had taken part in the Afghan war without his permission.
"Othman! You get back home right now! I'm warnin' you! Don't make me come over there!"
Shahri was born and brought up in Namas village. He joined the College of Shariah at King Khaled University in Abha in 1990 but did not complete the course. He was working at a vegetable shop in Namas with Othman Al-Amri, another suspect, and left his home in Namas two weeks before Haj with his wife to undertake the pilgrimage but did not return. His wife returned with her brother two weeks ago, Shahriâs brother Awad said. Shahriâs wife said she had been staying at a flat in Riyadh in the last three months, adding that her husband came to the flat only to eat. Shahri did not visit his mother, who was in hospital for a month at the time.
"Mom? She's just a woman. Maybe she'll live..."
Aysha Abdullah Al-Amri, Othman Al-Amriâs mother, said she could not believe that her son was among the terror suspects. âHe is well-behaved and treated me very well. Unlike others he never went abroad for jihad,â she said. Amri worked in military maintenance.
Guess he didn't have to go abroad for jihad. He stayed home for it...
Sources close to Sultan Jibran Al-Qahtani, another suspect, told Al-Watan that Qahtani had participated in the Afghan war against the US. âAfter obtaining a degree in physical education from the Teachersâ College in Abha, Qahtani left for Afghanistan to participate in the war,â the sources added.
An Islamic gym teacher. The thought boggles the mind.
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Pommel horse and cartwheels in a burqa? Sounds like a stunt for "Jackass"
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Shahri did not visit his mother, who was in hospital for a month at the time.
So I guess Mo won't be sending mom a card tomorrow?
The Shariah considers terrorism one of the most heinous crimes, says Dr. Abdullah Al-Turki, secretary-general of the Makkah-based Muslim World League. âIslam has nothing to do with terrorism and the two do not meet at any point,â he said. Sheikh Saleh ibn Muhammad Al-Taleb, imam and khateeb of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, also called upon Muslims to mind the noble qualities of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). âThe life of the Prophet is full of examples of noble qualities and strong morality,â the imam said while delivering his Friday sermon. âThe Shariah is benevolence in its totality, in its objectives, applications and means. Islam is the religion of mercy not only in times of peace but also during war,â he said.
"You just don't notice it when they're slaughtering the prisoners and enslaving their wives and kiddies..."
Turkiâs statement and the imamâs sermon follow the announcement by the Interior Ministry on Wednesday that its security officers foiled major terror attacks in the Kingdom by a 19-member group linked to the Al-Qaeda network. Meanwhile, Dr. Muhammad ibn Saad Al-Salim, rector of the Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, rejected suggestions that his institution was one of the breeding grounds of terrorists. âOur university has no relationship with these people (the terrorists),â he told Okaz newspaper.
"Who? Us? Pshaw!"
He added that the university was revising its curriculum regularly to accommodate modern developments. More than 80,000 students have graduated from the university over the past 50 years.
Brimming with detailed knowledge of the Koran, a bit hazy on the connection between cause and effect...
Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News, reported yesterday that Khaled Muhammad Al-Johani, one of the 19 Al-Qaeda suspects was believed to be the gangâs leader. The Arabic daily said Johaniâs picture had appeared on the website of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) among 17 others more than a year ago. The FBI listed Johani among Al-Qaeda suspects after its agents saw his picture in a video seized from the house of a former Al-Qaeda military commander, Muhammad Atef (Abu Hafs Al-Masri), who was killed in US bombings in Afghanistan in October 2001, the paper said. Johani, who settled in Afghanistan in 1993 along with a number of Arab Afghans, had visited the Kingdom several times using forged travel documents but did not meet his father. Informed sources told the Arabic daily that Johani might have sneaked into the Kingdom a few months ago.
Using one of his 73 false passports and wearing one of his large collection of brightly colored wigs...
In a related development, Kuwait denied that Abdul Rahman Jabara, one of the 19 suspects, was a Kuwaiti national. âJabara is of Iraqi origin and holds Canadian nationality. He was born in Kuwait and lived here for a long time before settling in Afghanistan four years ago,â a Kuwaiti source told the paper.
That clears that up, then. Damn those Canucks!
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Oh, okay. Thanks for clearing that up. We were kinda wondering about it. So I guess everything's okay now, right?
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Terrorism has never been foreign to Islam. Witness Assassin of "The Old Man of the Mountains" in the 11th Century. Hell, the word assassin are derived from the cult ASHISHIN that supported al-Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah. al-Sabbah pioneered the use of suicided assasin that's currently in vogue with the islamist terrorists.
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