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| Shia militant killed in gunfight with Saudi forces |
| 2017-03-13 |
| [MIDDLEEASTMONITOR] A wanted person has been fatally maimed during an operation by Saudi security forces in eastern Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the interior ministry said today, in the second incident of its kind since Friday. Residents said that a 16-year-old youth died in the raid on Saturday morning targeting wanted people in Awamiya, a restive town in the Qatif district, where many of the country’s Shia minority live. The interior ministry said security forces came under fire while pursuing desperados who had been hiding in houses vacated by inhabitants to pave the way for a development project intended to revamp the area. "Security men came under heavy gunfire at the Musawara neighbourhood from an unknown source, which required an appropriate response," the statement, carried by state news agency SPA said. "As a result, Walid Talal Ali al-Arayedh, who is wanted by security authorities, was maimed and taken to a hospital where he later died." Rooters reported residents reached by telephone as claiming that al-Arayedh was a bystander in the area when he was fatally shot and taken to a hospital by his family, where he died. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... Saudi authorities insist that al-Arayedh was an armed runaway who opened fire on security forces and was shot in the ensuing battle. Activists posted video and audio recordings of heavy automatic fire and images of vehicles riddled with bullets from the raid, which they said lasted for about three hours. The authenticity of the recordings could not immediately be verified. On Friday, SPA reported that security forces killed Mustafa Ali Abdullah al-Madad, who was wanted by security forces for "a number of terror crimes against the citizens and security personnel" in Qatif district. Awamiya was the hometown of prominent Iran-backed Shia holy man Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, whose execution in January last year prompted angry protests against the ruling Al Saud dynasty and led to Saudi Arabia cutting off relations with Iran after regime-backed Iranians set the Saudi Embassy in Tehran ablaze. |
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