Four armed suspects and a Saudi police officer have been killed in a shootout the Saudi city of Buraida, the interior ministry has said. "Security forces uncovered a group of wanted men who belong to the deviant group (militants) in the Khodeira area of Buraida," the ministry statement, read on Saudi television said, adding one militant and two policemen were also wounded in the exchange of gunfire.
| Wonder how many got away? |
The authorities normally use the phrase "deviant group" to refer to followers of Saudi-born al-Qaida leader Usama bin Ladin, blamed for a string of bomb attacks in Saudi Arabia and the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
| I normally use the phrase "deviant group" when refering to Saudi |
Buraida, a town north of Riyadh, is viewed as the heartland of radical Islamists linked to bin Laden bent on bringing down the US-allied monarchy.
| So Buraida is the heartland of the homeland |
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