Khaled Al-Kayssum was part of a group of around 100 detainees ferried by bus from the prison outside Baghdad to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday night and freed there, Okaz reported, quoting his brother Ali. He was given 48 hours to leave Iraq, it said. Al-Yaum quoted Kayssum as saying by telephone that US occupation forces had returned his passport and that he was leaving Iraq last night. The paper said he declined to talk about his ordeal at Abu Ghraib, saying he would do so once he was back in Saudi Arabia.
| Held without charge, was he? An innocent civilian, was he? Guess we shoulda cut his head off. |
Meanwhile, it was reported that a Saudi belonging to a group headed by suspected Al- Qaeda operative Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi carried out Mondayâs suicide bombing in Iraq that killed 13 people, the manâs brother was quoted by Reuters as saying yesterday. Khaled Al-Shimri told Reuters by telephone that his brother Abdullah had been in Iraq for almost two months before the attack, in which five foreign contractors were among the dead. âI believe he belonged to Jamaat Al-Tawhid and Jihad,â Shimri said. âWe received news of his death in Mondayâs operation in Iraq.â
| Luckily for him he wasn't in Abu Ghraib, eh? That woulda been worse than exploding and killing a lot of innocents, right? |
Jamaat Al-Tawhid and Jihad claimed responsibility for the blast, which devastated a busy Baghdad street, in a statement posted on a Website on Tuesday. The five foreign contractors that were killed included two Britons, a Frenchman and an American. They were employees of a subsidiary of the US conglomerate General Electric or security contractors working with the company. |