You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
-Lurid Crime Tales-
Colorado Prisons Chief Murder May Have Saudi Prisoner Connection
2013-03-22
The Master Religion throwing its weight around.
[Fox News Denver] Investigators looking into the shooting death of the director of the Colorado Department of Corrections will look at the possibility that Tom Clements' murder may be tied to the recent decision not to grant a transfer of a Saudi man in a Colorado prison.

Homaidan Al-Turki was convicted in 2006 of unlawful sexual contact by use of force and other charges. Prosecutors said he sexually assaulted a housekeeper and kept her as a virtual slave for four years.

His conviction angered Saudi officials.
They have long-standing anger management issues...
The U.S. State Department sent Colorado Attorney General John Suthers to 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...
to meet with King Abdullah, Crown Prince Sultan and Al-Turki's family.

Last week, Colorado prison officials denied a request from the Saudi Arabian government to release Al-Turki to his home country to serve his life sentence.

Prosecutors opposed Al-Turki's transfer fearing he would be released upon return to Saudi Arabia.

Celments was the one who decided to deny the transfer. He wrote in a letter to Al-Turki that because Al-Turki refused to undergo sex offender treatment in prison, "I have decided not to support your request for transfer to Saudi Arabia at this time," reported the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

Sources have told FOX31 Denver, Al-Turki has come from an influential Saudi family that has long pressured Colorado to release him.

A source familiar with the investigation who refused to be identified by name because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said the Al-Turki connection right now is the main working theory behind Clements death.
Posted by:trailing wife

#8  apparently the Easter season (and Lazarus sequels) are upon us - from TW's link headline:

Colo. governor knows father of former killed inmate who may be linked to prison chiefÂ’s death
Posted by: Frank G   2013-03-22 22:39  

#7  According to the Washington Post, the governor of Colorado knows the dead supremacist's father.
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-03-22 22:22  

#6  The parolee was also a member of a white supremacist prison gang.

Then again, it wouldn't be be the first time time that there'd be a tie between certain Middle Eastern countries and US extremist groups.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-03-22 11:27  

#5  We do, B. (Though we share it with the rest of the world.)

It's called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

(There's also the Marianas Trench.)
Posted by: Barbara   2013-03-22 09:17  

#4  Too bad we don't have an off-shore prison facility where we can incarcerate these mooslim foks.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-03-22 08:16  

#3  The Details (link) Only 20 miles from where a Florida prisoner recently tried to make a run for it while being transfered across country to a prison and ended up shot up by the Texas lawmen.
Posted by: George Clunk4883   2013-03-22 01:28  

#2  30 year old Colorado parolee driving a black cadillac that matches description of vehicle at the murder scene of the Warden just got wacked in a shoot out with Texas Lawmen down in Texas.
Posted by: George Clunk4883   2013-03-22 01:18  

#1  but they can ride aeroplanes without a patdown...
Posted by: USN,Ret.   2013-03-22 00:47  

00:00