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Arabia
Saudi Female Terror Militant Escapes To Yemen
2013-04-13
[YemenPost] Several Saudi-based newspapers reported on Monday that Arwa Baghdadi, a female Saudi national believed to have links with al-Qaeda hard boyz would have fled to Yemen after a court convicted her on terror charges.

Although a Saudi court established that Arwa had indeed joined up al-Qaeda upon the death of her brother, Mohammed Baghdadi, she was subsequently released back into the family fold, under the strict authority of her father and brother, who became her legal guardians and guarantors of sort.

Arwa was jugged
Please don't kill me!
by the Saudi authorities in December 2010, in Wadi al-Dawasir after she opposed the security sources and appeared as a threat to public order.

On Monday, Arwa's mother, Huda al-Adhal made a distraught appeal to the press, asking for her daughter who bravely ran away accompanied by her brother, to return home 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...
, where she said they would be treated with clemency.

Al-Hayat newspaper quoted on Monday her mother as saying "The authorities here are tolerant and forgiving. So please come back!"

Arwa explained that her son informed her of him and Arwa's plan to join Yemen al-Qaeda over a phone call.

The Saudi authorities are now searching for Arwa and her two children, two-and-a-half-year-old son Osama and four-months old daughter Khadijah, Anas Baghdadi, his wife, Afnan, Mohammed's widow and her four-month-old daughter Huda. (Mohammed Baghdadi died right before Arwa allegedly joined al-Qaeda).

Family members have appealed to both Arwa and Anas family loyalty, asking them to surrender themselves to the authorities and ask for forgiveness. An uncle, Hesham Baghdadi told the press that the state had shown clemency to repentant terror hard boyz in the past and had even provided them with tools to reintegrate society.

If indeed it is established that Arwa Baghdadi escaped to Yemen to join al-Qaeda, she would be the thirds female Saudi national to willingly cross the border to follow the terror group.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  "we had 28 black bags going north and only 1 going south"
Posted by: Frank G   2013-04-13 10:59  

#1  Something seems wrong with the concept of escaping TO Yemen.
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-04-13 08:14  

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