Posted on 05/08/2003 9:57:52 AM PDT by knighthawk
Penalty to Be Commuted If Suspects Surrender: Prince Naif
Saudi police have launched a manhunt for 19 suspected militants after seizing a huge arms cache in the capital, the interior ministry said Wednesday. They were believed to be hiding in the capital after a shoot-out with security forces late on Tuesday. An official source said: When some of these suspects, who used to frequently come to a house at Eshbiliah Quarter, east of Riyadh, were chased by the security men, they shot at the policemen and tried to flee. After their car stalled, they hijacked a car of a citizen and later abandoned it and escaped in the thickly populated quarter." The interior ministry said in a statement read out on Saudi state television that police had also found a huge cache of explosives, hand grenades, ammunition and machineguns after storming a "terroristsÕ lair". The television gave a telephone hotline to report any information that would lead to the menÕs capture.
Saudi television showed large metal containers of what appeared to be explosive material as well as handbags stuffed with grenades. It also displayed passports and identity cards as well as a bag full of disguises, including colorful wigs. The statement said the men were linked to a March explosion in the capital in which a Saudi man was killed. Police later said the victim had received explosives training in Afghanistan, where Al-Qaeda was based. Meanwhile, Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz, interior minister, underlined that if the 19 suspects, whom the police are hunting for after aborting the terrorist acts they have been planning, surrender voluntarily, this may commute the penalty to be applied against the crimes they committed and the accusations against them. Prince Naif disclosed that preliminary information revealed that the suspects belong to Al-Qaeda network and that they had been planing terrorist acts that may include the destruction of buildings and targeting individuals. He noted that the suspects nay have smuggled some of the weapons or may be stolen or even taken from official stores. He explained that the weapons are 100 percent manufactured outside the Kingdom.
He pointed out that behind this cell are political dimension with the objective of causing harms to the security and the image of the Saudi government and people. He added that the cell may have received outside support and arming and that members of the group were misled through wrong religious principles. He underlined that the Saudi authorities will strongly deal with this with the support of citizens, expatriates and the families of the wanted ones. He denied that the timing of the announcement of the foiled terrorist attempt has any link with the forthcoming visit of American Secretary of State to the Kingdom. He underlined that, in its security investigations, the government will not implicate tribes or families due to similarity of names. Prince Naif announced rewards for anyone who gives information that lead to the wanted criminals.
The terrorists who were planning to carry out subversives included the following: Turki Mishal Al-Dandni, a Saudi, Ali Abdulrahman Saeed Al-FagÕasi Al-Ghamidi, a Saudi, Khalid Mohammed Musallam Al-Juhani, a Saudi, Salih Mohammed Awadallah Al-Alawi Al-Aufi, a Saudi, Abdulaziz Eisa Abdul Muhsin Al-Migrim, a Saudi, Abdel-Karim Mohammed Jabran Al-Yaziji, a Saudi, Hani Saeed Ahmed Abdel-Karim Al-Ghamidi, a Saudi, Mohammed Othman Abdullah Al-Waleedi Al-Shihri, a Saudi, Rakan Muhsin Mohammed Al-Sikhan, a Saudi, Yousef Salih Fahd Al-Ayeiri, a Saudi, Othman Hadi Makboul Al-Mardi Al-Amri, a Saudi, Bandar Abdulrahman Salim Al-Ghamidi, a Saudi, Ahmed Nasser Abdullah Al-Dakheel, a Saudi, Hamad Fahd Abdullah Al-Aslami Al-Shammari, a Saudi, Faisal Abdulrahman Abdullah Al-Dakheel, a Saudi, sultan Jabran Sultan Al-Qahtani, a Saudi, Jabran Ali Hakami, a Saudi, Abdel-Rahman Mansour Jubara, of an Iraqi origin, and holder of Kuwaiti and Canadian nationalities, Khalid Ali Ali Haj, a Yemeni.
Other names will be announced at the suitable time, said the source while urging the citizens, relatives of these wanted persons, or who may know anything about them to immediately report through the telephone number 800 1247770,. Or to the nearest security center. The official source warned against sheltering these suspects.
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Saudi police look for al-Qaeda suspects
Al Bawaba
A score of militants currently hunted by Saudi police are members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network who had planned to carry out major attacks in the kingdom, the interior minister said.
"Yes, all the cell members are known to be al-Qaeda operatives," Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz told Al-Riyadh daily. "But we must arrest them to be one hundred percent certain of this information."
Searches of the gunmen's hideout and their getaway car netted a huge cache of arms.
The Saudi press reported that the group had been planning major terrorist attacks in the Kingdom.
The London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper quoted a senior security official as indicating that the group had links with Al-Qaeda. “They had gone to Afghanistan,” he said, adding that their aim was to undermine the Kingdom.
Meanwhile, Al-Majalla magazine reported that Al-Qaeda is preparing a new attack in the United States on the scale of Sept. 11 after adopting a new operational structure which is impenetrable to US intelligence. “An attack against America is inevitable,” Al-Majalla quoted the network’s newly appointed spokesman Thabet ibn Qais as saying in an e-mail to the magazine.
Daniel 7:24
And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
10 horns, Psalm 83
Daniel 8:9
And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.
Cited as regular military manuevers planned..it was infact a hunt for insergents from Hamas...and Hizbullah,allong with Wahabbists.
A real coup threat existed within Saudi Arabia..with Wahhabist support.
Several leaders could be implicated in this..ie Yasser Arafat,Bashar Assad of Syria...and who knows..maybe Jordans King thru in to see what could become of it.
No ones much talking about it..but clearly there is tension between the houses.
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