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Saudi Explains How Al-Qaeda Used Him for Terror Operation
2005-09-18
Ahmad ibn Abdullah Al-Shayie, a 21-year-old Saudi who escaped a bomb explosion in Baghdad on Dec. 25, 2004, has returned to the Kingdom to tell the story of how Al-Qaeda militants helped him enter Iraq and later used him to carry out a terrorist operation. Ahmad expressed regret for killing 12 innocent Iraqis, including seven members of the same family in the operation, adding that Al-Qaeda arranged the bombing in Baghdad’s Al-Mansour neighborhood without his knowledge. The young man was luckily ejected from the tanker by the force of the blast, Al-Watan Arabic daily said.
12 people dead, never to breathe in and out again, never to grow old, never to smile or laugh or weep. Doesn't shariah call for Ahmad to be killed unless the families of the dear departed forgive him? Or is that only for young women from Assir who kill Saudis who try to rape them?
Ahmad who sustained severe burns all over his body was arrested by Iraqi police who later handed him over to Saudi authorities. He told how Al-Qaeda was recruiting young Arabs to fight alongside insurgents in Iraq, adding that he had entered Iraq through Syria with the help of smugglers. Ahmad said he had gone to Iraq out of a conviction that he should do something to help his Iraqi brothers though he had not consulted scholars about his plans and in fact ignored the advice of his parents and family.
So the esteemed scholars, as anyone can see, are innocent of inciting him to his deviant actions...
He said he was taken to an Al-Qaeda cell in Doura district in the south of Iraq where he was trained to drive an oil tanker. On the day of explosion, he was told to take the tanker to the Al-Mansour neighborhood. “They asked me to stop the tanker near a concrete barrier, saying someone would come to receive the tanker from me. But no sooner had I stopped the tanker than it exploded,” he said. Ahmad, who was born in Buraidah in 1984, is now undergoing treatment at a hospital in Riyadh. Saudi authorities have allowed his family to visit him. In a TV program which will focus on Ahmad, a number of security, social and Islamic experts will also take part.
I'm sure it'll all be very edifying. I do hope they show his fried carcass to the young Soddies who want to run off and do similar heroic things. Maybe it'll drive home to them that if they fail in achieving their goal of 72 flat-chested 12-year-olds in the afterlife, there aren't going to be any waiting for them here to change their colostomy bags and attend to their wants. Though if they move to Denmark, no doubt the government will send a civil servant by once a month to drain the old build-up...
Posted by:Fred

#8  RC: we know for a fact that some of the Saudi princes have been funding AQ. We've had a few of them named, and, interestingly, they died in mysterious ways long before they were outed as funders. One died of exposure in the desert, AFAICR, and another died in a car crash on the way to the funeral.

A few Saudi princes isn't the Saudi government, any more than communist infiltrators in the Federal government were representative of the United States. The fact is that an al Qaeda takeover in Saudi Arabia would not be advantageous to the Saudi royal family - they would lose their stipends just as surely as the Shah of Iran lost his, post-revolution. Why would al Qaeda want to take over? Because al Qaeda isn't just an ideology - it is ultimately led by men who not only want power in their own right, they want control over the tens of billions currently frittered away by the Saudi royal family on vacations, alcohol, women and shopping trips to expensive European stores.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2005-09-18 19:25  

#7  There is also the islamic duty to fund jihad against Dar al Harb. The princelings justify funding AQ because they also attack infidels.
Posted by: ed   2005-09-18 19:06  

#6  ZF -- we know for a fact that some of the Saudi princes have been funding AQ. We've had a few of them named, and, interestingly, they died in mysterious ways long before they were outed as funders.

One died of exposure in the desert, AFAICR, and another died in a car crash on the way to the funeral.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-09-18 19:01  

#5  CA: Unbeknownest to the Saudis? No. If recruitment can take place so readily, government infiltrators could just as readily infiltrate the network.

Terror groups may be organized by tribal allegiance solidified by blood ties, which will make them hard to infiltrate. Initiation rites may involve killing security personnel. Al Qaeda's goal is to put itself in power in some Muslim state. There is no reason for the 5,000-odd princelings of Saudi Arabia to kick themselves off the public payroll, which is what would happen if al Qaeda took over. There might be Al Qaeda sympathizers among them, but I can't imagine more than a tiny minority are prepared to lose their stipends over a millenial ideology.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2005-09-18 18:56  

#4  There is so much bull shit in this article, I had to put my trusty anti-bs goggles on to finish reading it.

Ahamd the victim? Hardly. Unbeknownest to the Saudis? No. If recruitment can take place so readily, government infiltrators could just as readily infiltrate the network.

As for Ahmad, what the hell does he think is happening in Iraq by AQ recruits? And which "Iraqi people" is he trying to help?

One hopes the Soddies pull his roasted carvass apart limb by limb on live tv.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-09-18 15:06  

#3  Bobby, please do not tell us what you think you might do during an eternity with 72 sexually active rare white raisins.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-09-18 12:10  

#2  Waitaminute! I thought it was raisins! 72 rare-as-a-day-in-June raisins!
Posted by: Bobby   2005-09-18 07:51  

#1  Fred: Maybe it'll drive home to them that if they fail in achieving their goal of 72 flat-chested 12-year-olds in the afterlife, there aren't going to be any waiting for them here to change their colostomy bags and attend to their wants.

I've read that the houris are really good-looking. The catch is that Muslim priests have taken care to emphasize that the relationship is strictly asexual. Thus, they'll be in paradise having platonic relationships with 72 women endowed with beauty pageant looks. It makes the Greek tale of Tantalus seem like a picnic.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2005-09-18 01:03  

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