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| Zubayr al-Rimi Dies in Saudi Shootout | |
| 2003-09-24 | |
| EFL/FU: Blood and bullets littered the halls Wednesday of a Saudi apartment building where a shootout with security forces left three suspected militants dead, including an al-Qaida suspect wanted by the United States. The hours-long gunfight with suspects armed with automatic rifles and hand grenades ended Tuesday afternoon after Saudi security forces stormed the three-story housing complex for hospital employees in Jizan, 600 miles south of the capital, Riyadh. At least one security officer also died and two suspected militants were arrested, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. One of the Saudi men killed was Sultan Jubran Sultan al-Qahtani, also known as Zubayr al-Rimi. The FBI issued a bulletin Sept. 5 saying it was searching worldwide for al-Rimi, another Saudi, a Moroccan and a Tunisian in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, described al-Rimi as the chief deputy of Abu Bakr al-Azdi, the former top al-Qaida man in Saudi Arabia who surrendered to Saudi authorities on June 26. So he returned home to die, that’s nice of him. Al-Rimi’s name appears on a Saudi list of militants connected to May 12 suicide bombings in Riyadh that killed 35 people, including the nine attackers, according to a Saudi Interior Ministry official. Saudi officials have said the 19 were in contact with al-Qaida. At least 11 of the 19 have been killed or arrested. Tuesday’s police raid was intended to capture militants planning a terror attack, according to an official statement on Saudi state television. Which you can believe or not. Security officials initially said the gunmen had taken several foreign hostages at King Fahd Hospital. The Interior Ministry statement and later television reports did not mention hostages, but Al-Jazeera television’s Web site said all hostages were released. The building in which the shootout occurred was part of a complex housing about 3,000 foreigners - mostly from the Indian subcontinent, the Philippines and the Far East - as well as Saudis. "We have a big terrorism problem in our country and I don’t know how we’re going to solve it," Hussein Ahmed, a 24-year-old taxi driver in Jizan, said. "All we hear about is people dying. We don’t feel safe in our own homeland." Good, now do something about it. Jizan had been a site of earlier sweeps in the anti-terror crackdown. Saudi officials said in May they had confiscated weapons here. Jizan is near Saudi Arabia’s porous, 1,116-mile border with Yemen, a tribal country where illegal arms trading is rampant. Since May 12, Yemen and Saudi Arabia have set up joint border patrols and exchanged intelligence and suspects in a unified anti-terror campaign.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Thanks Katz. We both missed this one: * Make no effort to understand any link between "cause" and "effect". |
| Posted by: Flaming Sword 2003-9-24 4:43:52 PM |
| #4 I have to differ with you, Tu. Assuming that he is a martyr, dying as he did in a gunfight with the "enemy", he will have loads of fun figuring out how to spread the ecstacy of 72 really delicious raisins across eternity. Or, as Homer Simpson might say, "...mmMMMMMmmmm... eternal raisin rationing...." |
| Posted by: Ken B. 2003-9-24 4:33:29 PM |
| #3 Flaming Sword: Here's some more. Don't encourage people to have more courage than is necessary to go blooie. Full courage only makes people un-Islamic. Don't encourage the idea of children as innocents; it'll only discourage them from booming daycares and nurseries. Don't EVER treat your wives with decency or they'll want equal treatment. |
| Posted by: Katz 2003-9-24 4:30:13 PM |
| #2 Yeah, but it don't look like Zubby will be having any fun anymore. Bye, Zubby. Say "hi" to Allah for us, scumbag. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-9-24 1:19:03 PM |
| #1 "...according to the rules of Islam." Let's see how many of those "rules" we can collectively recall: * Feel free to abuse your women, for they are nothing but chattel; * Attack and kill unarmed civillians whenever the mood strikes; * Don't feel any obligation to tell the truth or keep committments made to others; * You can commit any attrocious and reprehensible act you wish so long as you blubber on endlessly about allah afterwards; * Don't allow anyone to learn anything about such troublesome topics as ethics, philosophy, science etc. Ethics and philosophy will only lead people astray from Islam, and one can always steal the science that is needed to effectively kill others; I'm sure I left some out, feel free to add whatever I've missed. |
| Posted by: Flaming Sword 2003-9-24 11:11:07 AM |