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2003-09-16 Arabia

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Posted by Steve 2003-09-16 10:05:24 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So the Soddies get a jugfull of jihadis, some of them cannon fodder, some of them with stuff that could be incriminating for others with much less likelihood of ever seeing the inside of the calaboose. So rather than sorting through the lot of them, somebody just decides to burn them all to the ground.

This is a story that should really be pushed.

Posted by Fred 2003-9-16 10:23:16 AM|| 2003-9-16 10:23:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 alk-runner dispute in the cells, obviously, Louie. Round up the usual suspects

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-16 10:29:38 AM|| 2003-9-16 10:29:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Assuming, of course, that the people in prison are who they say they are. Or who they don't say they are. Or what "they" really means.

Posted by Steve 2003-9-16 11:10:13 AM|| 2003-9-16 11:10:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The death toll from a fire that swept through a prison in the Saudi capital has risen to 94, a prison official said Tuesday. Relatives of inmates waited outside al-Haer prison to learn the fate of their loved ones after Monday's fire, which burned some bodies beyond recognition, the official said.

Can I call them or what?

Posted by Steve 2003-9-16 11:22:10 AM|| 2003-9-16 11:22:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 More details: SPA did not name the prison official but was apparently referring to Ali Hussein al-Harethi, who told a correspondent on the scene that a sponge mattress caught fire in a cell housing 20 inmates in wing 19 of the facility, setting off the blaze.
Non-fire retardent sponge mattress, burns hot with a lot of smoke. They'll melt and stick like napalm, too.

Posted by Steve 2003-9-16 11:45:52 AM|| 2003-9-16 11:45:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 And the gasses the foam gives off would be a great subsitiute for San Q's old gas chamber. What a convenient way to eliminate enemies. Though I would imagine that a prison would be mostly stone, concrete, and steel in Saudi. People burned beyond recognition is beyond me unless one had alot of fuel around. That's the part of the story that is very weak.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-16 1:16:07 PM|| 2003-9-16 1:16:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 DEBKA thinks the same: Blaze in Riyadh prison kills more than 100 inmates. DEBKAfile reveals: Sabotage apparently behind fire which caused deaths of al Qaeda captives before they gave away secrets under interrogation

Posted by Steve 2003-9-16 1:45:16 PM|| 2003-9-16 1:45:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 And I thought beheading was a much neater solution. Saudis are slipping.

Posted by john 2003-9-16 3:03:10 PM|| 2003-9-16 3:03:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey, does this mean that Amnesty International will get off our backs about conditions in GITMO?... I'm waiting.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-16 4:30:08 PM|| 2003-9-16 4:30:08 PM|| Front Page Top

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