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| Saudi confirms death of three wanted militants |
| 2010-01-19 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Three militants from Saudi Arabia's most wanted list were killed in September in an explosion outside the kingdom, Saudi's interior ministry confirmed on Monday. An informed source said the three died in neighboring Yemen, a hideout for Islamic militants and the ancestral home of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Former Guantanamo prisoner Fahd Saleh Suleiman al-Jutaily, Mohammed Abdul Rahman Suleiman al-Rashed, and Sultan Radi Somaileel al-Otaibi, all in their late 20s, were killed together with several others on Sept. 14, the interior ministry said. "There was a group of them meeting and an explosion happened," ministry spokesman General Mansour al-Turki said. "We got DNA for all of those people who were killed in that explosion" for identification, he added. He did not say where they were killed, but an informed source said it was in Yemen. The circumstances of the blast were not explained by al-Turki, but an earlier report by the London-based al-Hayat newspaper said Jutaily had been killed in northern Yemen in an attack by government troops. Jutaily joined al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 2001 on the encouragement of radical Saudi Sheikh Hamud al-Uqla, and was captured and eventually sent to the U.S. Guantanamo prison by U.S. forces, according to U.S. military records. He was released in 2006 and put through a Saudi terrorist rehabilitation program, but after release traveled to Yemen and re-established links with al-Qaeda, according to the Saudis. He is one of about a dozen Guantanamo returnees, out of more than 120, who have dropped out of the program and returned to militancy. Rashed left the country with false travel documents six years ago and was known to have joined up with al-Qaeda, while Otaibi left four years ago, according to the ministry. "All three were on our list of 85" most-wanted people, said Turki. The list was published and sent to Interpol nearly a year ago. Since then, three have turned themselves in to Saudi authorities and six are known to have died or been killed. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 "There was a group of them meeting and an explosion happened." Gotta love the General's passive delivery. "Oh, I was just sitting in my war room when suddenly some of our most wanted militants were 'exploded' by something or somebody." |
| Posted by: American Delight 2010-01-19 18:33 |
| #1 WORLD NEWS > AL QAEDA IN YEMEN [aka AQAP] SAYS THEY ARE INTACT AND READY TO STRIKE, i.e. to launch new Terror Ops on LAND, SEA, + AIR espec agz US-ALLIED INTERESTS around the ME-World. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-01-19 02:24 |