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| Saudi security arrest teacher in suspected terror case |
| 2004-02-13 |
| Saudi Arabian security forces have arrested a chemistry teacher on suspicion of links to âterrorismâ and possession of weapons and material used in making explosives, a local newspaper said on Friday. Chemistry teacher, bet his was a popular class. The daily Okaz said the secondary school teacher was arrested in Assir region and was being questioned. It gave only his last name as al-Shihri, the same family name as that of a top wanted militant who has reportedly been killed. Family affair, again. A pro-Al Qaeda Web site said on Tuesday that the militant, Amer al-Shihri, had been killed in a clash with security forces in the capital Riyadh but did not say when he died. His name was on a list of top 26 suspects issued by Saudi Arabia last year. Saw another report that the saudis were testing the dna of that body "found" in the desert to see if that was al-Shihri. Saudi officials were not immediately available to comment on the Okaz report. They never are. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 Here it is: One of Saudi Arabia's most-wanted terrorism suspects has died from injuries in a November shootout with security forces, a US official said. Amer Mohsin Moreef Al Zaidan al-Shihri made it to a safe house where he was treated by a nurse but later died, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Slow and painful lingering death, excellent. The Saudi Interior Ministry said in November that the five-hour shootout in a residential neighbourhood of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, left one suspected militant dead and eight policemen wounded. Witnesses said several other militants escaped. The Saudi government has never declared al-Shihri to be dead. Messages left with Saudi officials were not immediately returned. Al-Shihri's death also was reported on a Web site run by a group called the al-Qaida Organisation in the Arabian Peninsula. The site's statement, dated Monday, also said another militant, Abul Illah al-Otaibi, was killed in the same clash. Neither the US official nor the Web site said when al-Shihri had died. The site said the group buried al-Shihri in a remote part of Riyadh but that authorities later found the grave using information supplied by detained militants and exhumed the body. It gave no date for the exhumation. Yup, the stiff in the desert. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-2-13 2:48:34 PM |