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2010-10-18 Arabia

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Posted by Fred 2010-10-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia

#1 Interesting connections made in an article in yesterday's Telegraph ("Saudis warn of new terror threat in Europe"):

Saudi intelligence services have warned of a new terror threat from al-Qaeda against Europe, particularly in France, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said yesterday. He said the warning of a potential attack by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was received "in the last few hours, few days."

The warning may be linked to a series of arrests announced in recent days of senior operatives of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

At the beginning of last month, Saudi police say, one of the former Guantánamo inmates, Jabir Jubran al-Fayfi, contacted them to say he wanted to return home. He handed himself in to the Yemeni authorities, and was transferred to Riyadh.

In the last few days, the Yemen state news agency Saba has reported the subsequent arrests at Sana'a airport of Khaled al-Obeidi, a Yemeni accused of kidnapping a Japanese engineer in 2009, and, more significantly, Salah al-Raimi, 33, a Saudi citizen who appears to have been able to coordinate financing for al-Qaeda operations from his home in the kingdom.

Things that make you say "Hmmmm".

Posted by trailing wife 2010-10-18 12:13|| 2010-10-18 12:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Al Q is after Fwance, WHY?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-10-18 17:53|| 2010-10-18 17:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Do a search for "France, burka ban, deportation..."

Posted by Pappy 2010-10-18 23:14|| 2010-10-18 23:14|| Front Page Top

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