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Video message posted about kidnapped Saudi diplomat
2012-05-27
[Yemen Post] Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP) posted on Saturday a video message in which a Saudi diplomat, Abdullah Al-Khalidi, demanded the King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands Abdullah
... Fifth out of 37 sons of King Abdulaziz to ascend to the throne. He is, after his half-brothers Bandar and Musa'id, the third eldest of the living sons of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. Abdullah's mother is from the Rashid clan, longtime rivals of the Saud. He has 6 sons and 15 daughters and about $20 billion. His youngest son is just seven years old...
Ben Abdul-Aziz to save his life.

In a four-minute message, Al-Khalidi, who worked as the Saudi deputy consul in the Yemeni port city of Aden and was kidnapped in March, appealed to bring him back to his family, children and wife.

It is thought that Al-Khalidi is held in a region between Shabwa and Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
in which al-Qaeda is engaged in fight with the Yemeni army.

Al-Khalidi spoke in the video about sectors and offices of the Saudi consulate in Aden, detailing its nature and activities.

He revealed that the consulate contains an intelligence office that is run by three Saudi officers, asserting that it operates to recruit agents who report to the consulate about Al-Qaeda's activities and its leaders.

He also made it clear that the consulate send reports to the US forces that raided Al-Qaeda with drones.

The Saudi diplomat is one of several foreign diplomats who are being held by Al-Qaeda in Abyan. It holds a Swiss teacher and a relief French worker.

Al-Qaeda demands to release Saudi incarcerated
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
women and other men who are charged with connection to Al-Qaeda.

Riyadh previously said that it will not respond to blackmailing of Al-Qaeda, retreating it was paralyzed inside the Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face...
and most its leaders transferred to operate from Yemen.

Saudi Arabia had said it received a call from Al-Qaeda wanted operative, Mashaal Rasheed al-Shawdakhi, who claimed the abduction, indicating that al-Shawdakhi demanded the release of cut-throats cooled for a few years
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
in Saudi Arabia and a ransom payment in exchange for the diplomat.

Posted by:Fred

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