Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Two Bombers, Policeman Killed in Saudi Attack
Late breaking from tomorrow's papers: a shootout at a security checkpoint in Jizan is Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen: two terrorists wearing explosive vests killed and one Saudi police officer killed in the shootout. That first link is the BBC; for a Saudi account in Arabic see here. Like the August attempt on Muhammad Bin Nayef this is being blamed on Al-Qa‘ida in the Arabian Peninsula and is linked to events in Yemen; Jizan is another of those Saudi border areas (‘Asir, Jizan, Najran) that were among the last incorporated into the Kingdom in the 1930s and that have many links with Yemen. More as this evolves.
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AlWatan ran a companion article about the murdered security officer, Ahmad Shawish.
http://www.alwatan.com.sa/news/newsdetail.asp?issueno=3302&id=121256&groupID=0
Simple soldier (jundi awal), eldest of five brothers, father of two daughters with another child on the way.
Amir Muhammad bin Na'if visits family of Amr Ahmad Shawish to offer condolences.
http://www.alriyadh.com/2009/10/15/article466518.html
Amir Faysal Bin Khalid Bin Abdul Aziz - Amir of Asir - pays respects to Shawish family.
http://www.alriyadh.com/2009/10/15/article466517.html
More Saudi press articles
AlWatan's Account
http://www.alwatan.com.sa/news/newsdetail.asp?issueno=3303&id=121417&groupID=0
Interview with Shawish's parents.
http://www.alriyadh.com/2009/10/15/article466521.html
Can anyone tell me if the three militants have been identified yet? It was initially reported that two of them were on the latest list of wanted Saudis, but then nothing more was said about it.
Abdul,
Two of them have been identified by the MOI.
Yusuf Moh'd Ash-Shahry
Ra'id Abdullah Al-Harby.
Monday's AlRiyadh (19 Oct) has several articles on the topic.
http://www.alriyadh.com/2009/10/19/article467509.html
The first five articles in the "Local News" section are about the attack and Ash-Shahry.
http://www.alriyadh.com/section.local.html
There are also articles in AlWatan.
And English for those who don't read Arabic.
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009101951937
More background info on the participants in the attack.
In the first, the motive for Ra'id joining AQ was the death of his brother in Iraq fighting for AQ.
http://www.alwatan.com.sa/news/newsdetail.asp?issueno=3308&id=122090&groupID=0
In the second, some background on Yusuf along with a condemnation of terrorism by the sheikh of his tribe.
http://www.alriyadh.com/2009/10/20/article467822.html
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