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| Would be Saudi Suicide bomber realizes he was conned by Jihadis |
| 2007-07-29 |
| By DONNA ABU-NASR, Associated Press Writer Sat Jul 28, 12:29 PM ET RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The last time Ahmed al-Shayea was in the news, he was in the hospital at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad... Today, he says, he has changed his mind about waging jihad, or holy war, and wants other young Muslims to know it.... "I realized that all along I was wrong," al-Shayea told The Associated Press in a two-hour interview at a Riyadh hotel before returning to an Interior Ministry compound that serves as a sort of halfway house for ex-jihadists rejoining Saudi society.... He says that when he was handed over to the Americans a couple of days after his interrogation at the Iraqi Interior Ministry, he was scared because he had heard about the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. "But the care with which the American officers carried me down to the car when they came to take me made me relax," said al-Shayea. "One spoke Arabic and tried to put me at ease." After almost six months of medical care and interrogations during which al-Shayea said he was treated well, he was visited by three Saudi officers. "There is no jihad. We are just instruments of death," he said. |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #6 Doc, what he likely meant is: The jihad is only a cover for groups of sociopathic murderers. He does not understand yet that is precisely what jihad is about. Some, like Walid Shoebat and others, got that understanding after some pondering. I wouldn't write him off, yet. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-07-29 17:24 |
| #5 The last time Ahmed al-Shayea was in the news, he was in the hospital at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad... Has Andrew Sullivan weighed in on this one yet? |
| Posted by: Raj 2007-07-29 13:42 |
| #4 There is no jihad? Heck, there is no spoon. |
| Posted by: doc 2007-07-29 12:43 |
| #3 We ought to have stubby tour a different UK mosque every Friday. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2007-07-29 12:11 |
| #2 Things blow up if you put an apostrophe (') in the "Your Name" field. |
| Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-07-29 12:10 |
| #1 Well, our troops are conned by Bushitler and Cheney/Halliburton, so that is worse. |
| Posted by: Democratic Party base 2007-07-29 12:09 |