 Saudi authorities have vowed that they will bring the killers of Lt. Col. Mubarak Al-Sawat to justice. A senior security officer in Makkah, Al-Sawat was shot in a drive-by shooting on Saturday morning. Authorities believe that Al-Qaeda may have been involved in the murder. Security forces have launched a major manhunt to track down the unidentified gunmen who shot the officer as he stepped out of his house on way to work.
Misbah Al-Otaibi, the officer's wife, said she saw her husband lying in a pool of blood.
| Which meant that she was outside without a (living) male escort, so they had to beat her. |
A security source denied reports that the killers had mutilated the officer's body. Abdullah Al-Faiz, undersecretary at the Makkah governorate, who visited Al-Sawat's family to convey condolences from Makkah Governor Prince Abdul Majeed, said all of Saudi society was against the "deviant group," a term used to refer to Al-Qaeda militants. "This incident will only strengthen the resolve of society to confront the deviant group," he said, adding that the gunmen who perpetrated the crime would not escape. He said the government had not taken any unusual security measures since the incident. According to press reports, police found an axe next to the murdered officer's body and a video camera and wrapping tape on the roof of his house. The killers might have had plans to abduct him but when their operation encountered obstacles, they may have killed him on the spot, the reports said.
| Or they were making an al-Q snuff video. |
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