Swift Justice
June 18th, 2004 - 4:06 pm
The leader of al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz al-Muqrin, has been killed, Al Arabiya television reported Friday.
Muqrin claimed responsibility for the beheading of a U.S. engineer Friday and the killing of other Westerners in the kingdom, which has battled Osama bin Laden’s group for over a year. Arabiya gave no further details.
Hat tip: Jeff Goldstein.
Not swift enough.
I would have preferred something preemptive.
Once again it shows the ineptitude of KSA not to kill this swine before.
Everybody see the difference between real torture/murder and huminliation and abasement.
Is it too much to ask that we see video of his body wrapped in deli-sliced ham?
I hope it was a gut shot, and it took him a couple of hours to bleed out, and he was conscious and in agony the entire time. No amount of pain would be too much for him to suffer.
May he rot in hell.
Well and good. But notice that once again the Saudi’s have killed a fellow before anybody got a chance to ask him any questions.
I want to see the body. Look I know that the Suads are fighting a fraticidal civil war, but I still don’t trust them. Or actually because of that, I don’t trust them. I am never really sure which side is making the claim (to have killed him in this situation.)
If the claim the perpetrators are killed is reliable, the very swiftness of the action raises questions. The Saudis, it would appear, knew all along who their local al Qaeda chief is/was, and where to find him. Who among the Saudis, then, has reason not to have dealt with him long ago?
Sort of like the Pakistanis having Zawahiri surrounded.
Al Arabiya? It’s credibiity is only slightly above the Weekly World News.
I don’t believe this story for a second. The intelligence service of a totalitarian country just happened to stumble into this guy shortly after the commission of this atrocity? This whole thing stinks.
Wait a few days until these slimebags quietly announce that they got the wrong man, and then proceed to blame the Jews.
They killed them too quickly. You only get to these kinds of people when you know where they were to begin with.
They were probably killed in order to shut them up. Remeber the firat rule of assasination:
Kill the killers (deadmen tell no tales)
The Saudis apparently claimed that they caught him trying to dispose of the body. Amazing how quickly they did that detective work.
One news report said that the Saudis lost 5 in the confrontation.
From CNN:
“The bodies have been shown on Saudi TV,” the security source told CNN. “If he wasn’t dead, he would be issuing the statement instead of having it issued in his name.”
Twelve important suspects from al-Muqrin’s terror cell were arrested Friday, Al-Jubeir said. Most are Saudi citizens, he said.
Al-Muqrin’s No. 2 man, Rakan Muhsin Mohammad Alsaykhan — the second most-wanted on the Saudi Interior Ministry’s list — was among those arrested, Saudi security sources said.
Those captured include several senior al Qaeda operatives from different operational units in Saudi Arabia, the sources said.
The sources said authorities also confiscated a vehicle that was used in an attack on a BBC crew that left a cameraman dead.
The Web statement from “Voice of Jihad” denied that al-Muqrin was dead.
“God the great has said, ‘Oh believers, if an infidel came to you with some news, verify all,’” the statement began.
Two of the dead were identified as Faisal Abdulrahman Abdullah Aldakheel and Bandar Abdulrahman Abdullah Aldakheel, two brothers who were 11th and 20th, respectively, on the Saudi most-wanted list, the sources said. The four were slain after a police chase and gunbattle in Riyadh, the sources said. Five Saudi security forces were also killed.
Also killed was Turki al-Mutari, who was responsible for carrying out an operation in Khobar last month, he said.
One Saudi security force member was also killed and two were wounded.
Saudi security sources said it is significant that Alsaykhan — who had close ties with the al Qaeda mastermind of the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole — was captured alive.
The body hasn’t been found yet. That report was false. The chase and gun fight started at a road block. The guys killed probably weren’t the actual Johnson murderers, but headed the al Qaeda group that claimed responsibility.
it occurs to me that there is a significant advantage for a terrorist in being declared dead- your file is closed, people stop actively searching for you, and whoever claims to have killed you gets a pat on the back.
I don’t just want a body, I want DNA confirmation of their identity.
The way to tell Saudi Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign policy adviser, from Don Knotts is that the Saudi doesn’t wear a bow tie.
And riddle me this… the Fraudi’s can’t find the body but by gosh they managed to shoot up the ‘perpetrator’ within two hours of the photos getting posted on the internet.
How convenient for them to have a suspect, confirm his guilt and kill him so promptly.
Or maybe… they knew where a bad-boy, Abdulaziz Issa Abdul-Mohsin al-Moqrin, was all the time and when he misbehaved, or they needed a fall guy, they wacked him?
I’m deeply suspicious of this. Quite convenient that it happened so soon after the death and that no one was left alive eh?
Call me cynical…but I don’t trust the saudis…never have and never will.
Let’s just hope that they have more actions like this, before any more hostages are killed that is. That would mean even if they are not on the side of the angels, they will be running out of fall guys.
Unlikely, unfortunately