Two Saudi militants have been killed by Iraqi security forces and US troops during a raid on their hideout southwest of Kirkuk. The Director of the Kirkuk Districts Police Department Sarhad Qader told Voices of Iraq news agency that three suspected al-Qaeda terrorists were killed on Sunday in a joint mission by American and Iraqi soldiers at the town of Wadi al-Khanazee, some 45 km (30 miles) southwest of Kirkuk. Two of the dead militants were identified as Saudi nationals.
The senior security official noted that two jackets laden with explosives, a precision rifle and a considerable munitions cache were discovered in the operation.
Qader went on to say that the operation was carried out upon intelligence tip-offs that the gunmen were planning terrorist attacks in Kirkuk.
Thousands of Saudi nationals have slipped into war-shattered Iraq since the US invasion in March 2003.
| In these modern times there are so few opportunities for the Saudis to get rid of the most idiotic of their excess idiot sons. They must be congratulated on having found this ploy, and having got the sons believe so firmly in it, too. |