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| Police officer killed in Saudi festivities |
| 2004-09-03 |
| One policeman was killed and three others wounded in clashes with militants in a town northeast of Riyadh, a Saudi Interior Ministry official said Friday. The unidentified official, quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency, also said a number of suspects in Thursday's shooting were arrested. Two police patrols checking a report that armed suspects were in a house in al-Baradah, 250 miles northeast of Riyadh, were fired on by suspects in a vehicle as they approached the house, the official said, adding that a later search of the house revealed large amounts of explosives and weapons. No more details were available. Al-Arabiya TV reported Friday that one of the three wounded police officers was in critical condition. Thursday's clashes came a day after the surrender of a wanted militant identified by Saudi authorities as Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Moqrin. Al-Moqrin was accused in a May attack in the eastern city of Khobar that killed 22 people, most of them foreign oil industry workers. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 RIYADH - Saudi security forces Friday killed a suspected militant wanted on security-related charges in the northern town of Buraidah, where a security officer was gunned down the previous night, an official said. "I can confirm from preliminary information that one wanted suspect was killed today in a clash with security forces," said interior ministry spokesman Mansur al-Turki. Turki said the suspect was hunted down during clashes Friday morning as security forces chased militants following the previous night's shootout. He said further details on Friday's operation would be released soon, alluding to a number of casualties and arrests among suspects. That didn't take long. Either the Saudi cops are getting better or the gunnies are getting dumber. Or this guy had nothing to do with it and was just handy. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-09-03 2:36:36 PM |
| #2 pardon "but is a relative of the slain leader of the Saudi wing of al Qaeda, Abdulaziz al-Muqrin" |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-09-03 1:22:56 PM |
| #1 this isnt an Al moqrin who is high up in local AQ, is it? damn these names are hard to follow. Of course the practice of recruiting cousins, nephews, and tribe members adds to the similarity of names. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-09-03 1:22:05 PM |