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Arabia
Qaeda suspects, policeman shot dead in Saudi
2009-10-14
[Al Arabiya Latest] Two suspected members of al-Qaeda were killed and a third was arrested in a firefight in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that also resulted in the death of a policeman, the interior ministry said.

The official SPA news agency quoted ministry spokesman General Mansur al-Turki as saying the early morning shootout took place at a police checkpoint in Jizan province on the southern border with Yemen.

Turki told the agency that
Two of the three suspects, who had been on board a vehicle, were wearing women's clothing and wore explosives vests and carried grenades.
two of the three suspects, who had been on board a vehicle, were wearing women's clothing and wore explosives vests and carried grenades. "More grenades, automatic weapons and bomb-making materials" were also found in the vehicle, he added.

The shooting broke out when the vehicle was about to undergo a security check on the basis of "information on the planning of terrorist acts by the deviant minority," official Saudi phraseology for al-Qaeda.

The spokesman said that when a policewoman wanted to check the identities of two people in the vehicle dressed in women's robes the suspects began shooting at security forces, who returned fire.

He said the hail of bullets resulted in "the deaths of two passengers in the vehicle and the arrest of a third."

Turki said one police officer was killed and another wounded in the exchange of fire, and added that no further details would be given for the moment "so an inquiry can get under way."
Posted by:Fred

#1  Is there going to be a fatwa against burqa's and face covering head scarfs now?
Posted by: tipover   2009-10-14 00:22  

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