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| Al-Qaeda controls recruits through jail and torture threats |
| 2004-09-23 |
| The Al-Qaeda terror network attracts young Saudis and then controls them by threats of jail and torture by security forces if they desert, two captured recruits told Channel One of Saudi Television. In a program entitled "Special Facts From Within the Cell" which aired late on Tuesday, Khaled Al-Farraj and Abdul Rahman Al-Roshoud said the militants used heavy psychological pressure to win over and maintain the loyalty of their members. "Most recruits do not know what is happening outside or who has been killed by their terror operations as they are not allowed to read newspapers or watch television," Farraj said. He also pointed out that most clerics in the cell had no knowledge of Shariah and Islamic teachings. "If any recruited member receives a letter from his wife or family, the superiors will give him the letter only after reading it. They also will not allow any recruit to go out alone except with somebody who will prevent him from running away," Farraj said. "Some recruits have personally told me of their desire to get out of the cell but they cannot as they think that the police will torture them," Farraj said. The program interspersed confessions from the two men with graphic pictures of mangled cars, buildings and bodies, taken at the scene of attacks in the Kingdom. During the show, Dr. Khaled Al-Khulaiwi and Dr. Turki Al-Atiyan of King Fahd Security Academy, Dr. Khaled Al-Quraishi of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, and Dr. Fahd Al-Khereiji of King Saud University commented on the confessions. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 Sounds like the French Foreign Legion, but with uglier hats. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-09-23 10:06:39 AM |
| #1 But how could they do such a thing?!? I thought they were idealists, not evil! /grotesque naivete' |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-23 8:26:15 AM |