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| Soddies arrest 4,047 hard boyz along Yemeni border? |
| 2003-12-27 |
| This is AFP via the Hindustan Times, but this strikes me as rather implausible. Saudi authorities, who are engaged in a massive crackdown on Islamic extremists, have arrested more than 4,000 "infiltrators" in the south of the kingdom along the border with Yemen, state media said on Saturday. Most folks I know would call that an army ... The official SPA news agency said 4,047 "infiltrators" were arrested and a large quantity of weapons and ammunition were seized in Najran province. However, it did not say when the arrests and seizures were made. So if they’re hard boyz and armed to the teeth, how the hell did the Soddy coppers nab ’em without getting overwhelmed, at the very least from sheer numbers? Also seized were a large quantity of dynamite sticks and detonators, as well as "a quantity of alcohol (which is banned in Saudi Arabia), hashish and qat (a narcotic shrub widely used in Yemen)," according to SPA. So that’s where all of the damned alk runners went after the Riyadh bombings! That must be one hell of a keg they’re bringing in too, if they need 4,000 guys to haul it ... Saudi authorities, who in the past reported arrests and arms seizures along the border with Yemen, have stepped up the hunt for Islamist militants blamed for a series of suicide bombings in Riyadh in May and November that left more than 50 people dead. Hundreds of terror suspects have been rounded up. Of which at least 300 have now been released ... |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #5 Dnamite and detonators? Come on! Whover wrote that article obviously has been watching too many Squint Eastwood garlic westerns. That type of explosive hasn't been used for warfare in that region since Lawrence of Arabia was blowing up trains. |
| Posted by: Rivrdog 2003-12-27 6:17:14 PM |
| #4 must be one hell of a kegger if they need dynamite You don't use dynamite? It's much safer at a kegger than nitro. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-27 4:20:24 PM |
| #3 That must be one hell of a kegger if they need dynamite, guns, and detonators to hold it ... |
| Posted by: Dan Darling 2003-12-27 3:25:14 PM |
| #2 Sounds like the Saudis ran into a kegger, not an army. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-12-27 3:21:31 PM |
| #1 4,047? Isn't that the number of "princes" in the Saudi Royal family? Coincidence? I think not. |
| Posted by: Tibor 2003-12-27 3:16:00 PM |