Four people were killed and three others injured in a tribal revenge clashes last Saturday in Sanaâa. A Yemeni official at the Ministry of Interior said the armed clash took place at al-Hasabah area near the Ministry of Interior headquarters due to a tribal vengeance between the clans of Al-Hassan and Al-Naser from Bani Dhibyan tribe. It claimed the lives of Ali Ahmad al-Dahni and Ahmad al-Dahni, from Al-Hassan and two passers-by, Sameer Ali Abduh and Ubadi Abdu Raboo. The clash also led to the injury of Naser Hadi al-Dhebyani from Al-Nasser and Hifedh Allah al-Raimi and Ali Muhsen al-Baâadani, passers-by. The clash also caused damage to the properties of the people living in that area.
"Hey, don't mind them. They're just tribesmen. You can clean up the damage when they're done..."
The official said that police has been able to arrest three persons from Al-Hassan, seizing their cars and that investigations have revealed that the cause of the incident is an old tribal vengeance between the two clans. However, eyewitnesses said that the clashes resulted in 7 deaths and 5 injuries.
But they sure showed them, by Gawd!
In a separate incident, three men were killed and four injured â including a woman â in the governorate of Mareb also on Saturday and also in a tribal revenge fight. A tribal source said that the attackers belonged to the Bani Nawf tribe that has old vengeance with Al-Jumaan tribe. Hence, the overall total of those killed in Sanaa and Mareb because of tribal clashes in just one day reached 8 deaths. The capital and Mareb has been for a long time a good place for tribesmen to settle down their accounts and tribal revenge problems. President Saleh ordered the forming of a committee from the Shura council members to put an end to the problem. However, since then the committee has done little.
That's what committees usually do, isn't it?
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A leading mosque preacher in Riyadh criticized those who commit acts of terrorism, saying such acts had nothing to do with the teachings of Islam. The cleric's criticism during a mass Friday prayer service came as Saudi officials hold four men allegedly tied to bin Laden's al-Qaeda group following the fatal May 12 attacks on three residential compounds. Like elsewhere in the Saudi capital Friday, tight security surrounded the Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque — the kingdom's largest — where its grand mufti and preacher, Sheik Abdulaziz al-Sheik, delivered a 45-minute sermon to some 8,000 worshippers. "Terrorism has nothing to do with Islam," al-Sheik told the congregation. "Islam should not be blamed for acts of other people. People should be held responsible individually for their own acts."
You're a cleric. You're in the fatwah business. Why don't you declare them apostate, and call for the Faithful to kill them?
Following the service, worshipper Youssef Ahmed lashed out at the terrorists behind the Riyadh bombings. "This bombing in Riyadh was not Islamic. I am very angry that actions of some nonbelievers are being linked with the teachings of the religion of peace," Ahmed, a heavily bearded man aged in his late 40s, told The Associated Press.
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It wasn't a Christian or Jew or Hindu flying those planes into the WTC on 9-11. It was true believers following another member of the tight turban crowd who issues a Fatwah - Osama Bin Laden.
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It's the Fatwas themselves, or rather their being taken seriously as having the force of law that's the real problem. The west got rid of that crap about a thousand years ago - we don't think the Pope's decrees have any but moral signifigance, for example.
How worried is Jacques Chirac about the threat of being excommunicated and declared anathema - destined inevitably to hell?
JEDDAH â Somali Consul General Muhammad Elmi Omer on Thursday expressed concern over the closure of the Riyadh-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundationâs office in Somalia. The charity, which the United States suspects of having links to terrorist groups, said it had decided to shut three of its offices abroad. The Islamic agency closed its doors in Somalia on Saturday after the Saudi government ordered its international staff to leave the country, Nur Alasow a Somali employee of the agency told the IRIN news agency. âI am deeply shocked by the news of the closure of Al-Haramainâs office in Somalia,â Omer told Arab News. âThe Foundation has continued to be the only lifeline for the Somali people despite the lack of a functioning government. In a country with no effective government, no formal education system and health care, aid agencies are essential for ordinary peopleâs social and economic well-being. The absence of these charities directly affects the very survival of many Somalis,â he added.
Al-Haramain began its Somali activities in wake of the civil war in 1992. The organization ran a total of eight orphanages â five of them in capital Mogadishu â housing about 3,500 children throughout the country. It also financed over 100 schools and distributed thousands of tons of foodstuffs annually. âSince the collapse of Somali government, Arab and Islamic aid agencies have focused on providing humanitarian assistance to the needy people in the country,â Omer said. âThe Al-Haramain foundation has been one of the largest aid groups in Somalia.â He added that the aid agencies had invested in a series of important welfare projects including the renovation of schools and the payment of salaries for health personnel and schoolteachers. The consul general said the Western allegations that Islamic charities funded local Al-Qaeda cells in Somalia were based on misconceptions about the realities in the country. âThe Western countries should study the realities in Somalia. Any misconception can only exacerbate the poor conditions in the country.â
I'm sure they'll be back, probably with another name and directors. Shipments of arms and ammunition will resume, and the madrassahs will go back to turning out jihadis.
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