This is hilarious! Terorists were shot back in April and it is now that the Interior Minister is announcing their deaths. But, this is the best part, he cannot find the bodies whose deaths he is making known now, 4 months later!
By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI
The No. 2 and No. 19 figures on Saudi Arabia’s most-wanted terrorist list have died from gunshot wounds suffered in an April shootout with police, the Interior Ministry said Saturday. The bodies of Rakan Mohsin Mohammed al-Saikhan and Nasser Rashid Nasser al-Rashid have not been found.
| Did you look behind the couch? |
But investigations indicated they died because they received improper medical care as their comrades moved them from place to place fleeing the April 12 clash in the capital, Riyadh, which also killed one policeman, the Interior Ministry said in a statement read on national television.
| And you guys laugh when I pray for sepsis... |
Relatives of the militants had been notified of their deaths, according to the statement. The ministry did not reveal how police learned of the deaths. If confirmed, the deaths of al-Saikhan and al-Rashid would mean that at least 14 of the 26 militants on a most-wanted list issued in December are either dead or in custody.
| At least we're past the halfway point now... |
The Interior Ministry claimed militants moved al-Saikhan, the No. 2 on the list, to three different Riyadh neighborhoods before he died a day after the clash. It did not say when al-Rashid, the No. 19 figure, died. Police raided two places where al-Saikhan had been kept and arrested three people. Five others were arrested in relation to al-Rashid’s death and burial, the statement said. Al-Saikhan suffered severe gunshot wounds to the chest, the statement claimed.
| Aaaah! The old sucking chest wound! Makes my heart go pitty-pat! |
Al-Rashid received "primitive medical treatment" to a severe leg wound that became infected before it was amputated with an electric saw.
| I prayed for sepsis and Allan heard my prayer! |
"Nasser, old buddy, that leg's gotta come off!"
"Well, I... Uhhh... What's with the SawsAll?" |
Al-Rashid died as a result of the amputation, the statement added.
"He's dead, Mahmoud!"
"Ummmm... Let's not put this on the website, okay?" |
The Interior Ministry blamed other militants who whisked the wounded al-Saikhan and al-Rashid from the shootout scene as being "heartless" for "placing their personal interests even above the well-being of those they have misled into following them." A militant who had helped transport the wounded al-Saikhan was Awad bin Mohammed bin Ali al-Awad, who was killed by police Thursday in a gunbattle in Riyadh, the statement said. The statement added that al-Saikhan’s burial was supervised by the leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network in the Arabian peninsula Abdul Aziz al-Moqrin, who was himself killed June 19 in a shootout with security forces. Al-Moqrin was killed a few hours after the terror group posted photographs of the beheading of American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr. on an Internet site. |