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2003-06-02 Arabia

Twelve Terrorists Arrested : Saudi Official Press Release

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Posted by Steve 2003-06-02 11:35 am|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dang Fred! How you keep that alphabet soup straight is beyond me. My eyes glaze over ofter 2 minutes in Thugburg. From this and other of your comments, it sure seems as though terrorist blood is thicker than nationalist waters. I wonder if Ghamdi corresponds to some Saudi town, a la Tikriti. Or if they all just say, "I'm Spartacus". At any rate you should find a congressman or CIA weenie and feed em your findings. With our gov't, you can't assume they know anything.

Posted by Scott 2003-06-02 14:00:33|| 2003-06-02 14:00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh no, the Soddies didn't pat him in the head. What they did was to free him at MEDINA. And this has a very deep significance in the Muslim world: it is the place were you go to gain new forces before going in another attack on the non-muslims. In other words: the Sodies were sending him a message encouraging him to launch new attacks.

Posted by JFM 2003-06-02 14:50:17|| 2003-06-02 14:50:17|| Front Page Top

#3 isnt assir the southwest near Yemen, where the Bin laden family comes from?

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-06-02 15:28:35|| 2003-06-02 15:28:35|| Front Page Top

#4 As a matter of fact...

The patronymics Alghamdi and Alshehri, borne by six of the presumed terrorists, have drawn particular attention. These names are connected to the Assir region in southern Saudi Arabia, and come from two Arabian clans, the Hamedi and the Sharahni. The populations of Assir have never really accepted the dominance of the Sauds. To understand the reasons for their opposition, we need to recall certain historical facts. When the present royal family unified the country, their conquest, which started out from Kuwait in 1902, ended in the Assir region, the last stronghold of the kingdom, taken in 1929.

Posted by Fred 2003-06-02 15:48:54|| 2003-06-02 15:48:54|| Front Page Top

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