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Saudi police storm suspect's home in Buraidah
Saudi security forces acting on a tip-off yesterday besieged the Buraidah home of Bandar Al-Dakheel, one of the 18 most wanted terrorists still at large, but made no arrests. âAfter a siege that continued for three hours, security forces used teargas before storming the house,â a high-level source told Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News. Al-Dakheel was reportedly holed up at the house with a number of other militants.
| But they didn't arrest him? After a three-hour siege, including teargassing the place... |
Police found a jeep which the terrorists had used in Thursdayâs attack on security forces who besieged a rest house in Khudaira, where four terrorists and two security men were killed in an ensuing gunbattle. According to another security source, the vehicle seized in Buraidah yesterday was rigged with explosives.
| But they didn't arrest anybody? |
The report has not been confirmed by the Interior Ministry. âSecurity men, alerted to the presence of wanted terror suspects in the Al-Nassim neighborhood in Buraidah, raided a house where they seized a car bomb, but without arresting any suspects,â one security official said. Witnesses earlier said clashes broke out in the Al-Nassim residential area around 1 p.m. when security men were searching for suspects. The gunbattle, which continued intermittently for some five hours, was at its most intense around 2.30, when helicopters hovered above the area and security forces systematically searched for the suspects, they said. But the security official denied the account, saying only tear gas was used.
| "Well, maybe a little gunbattle, but nothing serious. With all the teargas, they couldn't really hit anything..." |
Security forces who raided the suspectsâ house on Thursday found two pick-up trucks, one of which was used in an April 20 shooting in Buraidah in which a security man was critically wounded. They also found bomb-making equipment, some of which were similar to that found in booby-trapped vehicles which were found and defused, it said. Authorities have reported several seizures of booby-trapped cars in recent weeks, foiling potential suicide bombings of the kind which have rocked Riyadh in the past year. According to Asharq Al-Awsat, on Sunday police arrested three terror suspects in Buraidah and seized a cache of weapons and explosives including hand grenades. There are reports that one of them was linked to Abdul Aziz Al-Muqrin, the leader of Al-Qaeda network in the Kingdom.
| What's linked to al-Muqrin? One of the guys arrested or one of the hand grenades? Who the hell wrote this? |
Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-05-25 |
