Saudi Arabia: Warrants out for 47 al-Qaeda militants

Saudi Arabia seeking 47 al-Qaida suspects abroad
Saudi Arabia has asked Interpol for help in tracking down 47 al-Qaida suspects beyond its borders who are believed to be planning attacks in the kingdom. Interior Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Mansour al-Turki says all the suspects are outside Saudi Arabia but he did not disclose their whereabouts. They are all Saudi nationals. Saudi Arabia routinely releases lists of wanted al-Qaida suspects. The country has aggressively battled the group since a series of attacks inside the kingdom that began in...

Saudi Arabia seeking 47 al-Qaida suspects abroad
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia has asked Interpol for help in tracking down 47 al-Qaida suspects beyond its borders who are believed to be planning attacks in the kingdom. Interior Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Mansour al-Turki says all the suspects are outside Saudi Arabia but he did not disclose their whereabouts. They are all Saudi nationals. Saudi Arabia routinely releases lists of wanted al-Qaida suspects. The country has aggressively battled the group since a series of attacks ins...

Interpol after 47 Saudis for alleged al-Qaida ties
PARIS - Interpol says it has placed 47 Saudis with alleged links to the al-Qaida terror network on its most-wanted list. The publication by the international police body Monday means all 188 member countries have received details about the suspects so that national police forces can help track them down. Over the weekend, Saudi Arabia asked Interpol for its help in tracking the suspects — all Saudi nationals — beyond its borders. Saudi officials say they are believed to be plan...

Interpol after 47 Saudis for alleged al-Qaida ties
Interpol says it has placed 47 Saudis with alleged links to the al-Qaida terror network on its most-wanted list. The publication by the international police body Monday means all 188 member countries have received details about the suspects so that national police forces can help track them down. Over the weekend, Saudi Arabia asked Interpol for its help in tracking the suspects — all Saudi nationals — beyond its borders. Saudi officials say they are believed to be planning attacks i...

Al Qaeda militants kill 12 Yemeni soldiers in ambush
By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN | Sat Jan 8, 2011 3:30am EST ADEN (Reuters) - Al Qaeda Militants attacked a Military convoy in south Yemen in an ambush Friday, killing 12 Soldiers and wounding three, a regional security official said. The Army patrol cars carrying water supplies to a Military camp were targeted in the city of Lawdar in the southern province of Abyan, where several Military Raids were carried out against suspected al Qaeda Militants last year. In November, a day after the state kic...

Saudis list 47 militants wanted abroad
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia released a list Sunday of 47 fugitive Extremists it says are plotting to attack the kingdom. The Interior Ministry said the list has been turned over to Interpol with a reward posted for information leading to their capture, the state-run SPA news agency said. A ministry spokesman said five wanted Saudis already have surrendered to Saudi embassies abroad. Saudi security forces have intensified their campaign against al-Qaida, and in November sai...

Saudi Arabia: rape victim to be whipped
**Posted by Phineas In civilized countries, such as the United States or any other Western liberal Democracy, a woman who was gang-raped would be given medical care and whatever Therapy she needed to recover. If her attackers were captured, she’d have the right to testify against them in open court and see them punished. Remember, we’re talking about civilized countries. In the Islamic Police State of Saudi Arabia, however, which is governed by the totalitarian Sharia code of religio...

Saudi Arabia will free vulture suspected of being 'Mossad spy'
Bird seized after it was reportedly found in a rural Saudi area with GPS and leg bracelet reading 'Tel Aviv University.' ...

Germany: Foreign minister may ask Pakistan to act against German nationals training for jihad in tribal regions
Good luck with that. "German FM's visit: Pakistan may be asked to act against German Jihadists," from the Express Tribune, January 8: Islamabad: The presence of German nationals with Al-Qaeda Militants in Pakistan's tribal regions is likely to be discussed when German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle hold talks with political and Military leadership here this weekend. He is scheduled to arrive in Islamabad on Saturday. He is also likely to meet the head of Pakistan's powerful spy agency, the...

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Loving Saudi Arabia ....again
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Saudi Arabia set to free vulture suspected to be a 'Mossad spy'
Bird reportedly found in a rural area wearing a transmitter and a leg bracelet bearing the words Tel Aviv University, prompting some to suspect a 'Zionist plot.'...

Saudi Arabia: Vulture arrested, accused of being a Mossad spy
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Four Yemeni soldiers killed in southern attack
Six Soldiers were also wounded in the attack in the southern province of Lahj, the official told Reuters. Eight Soldiers were injured on Saturday when their vehicle came under fire in the southern city of Lawdar, the site of Friday's suspected al Qaeda ambush which killed 12 soldiers, another local official said. Yemen is trying to quell a resurgent wing of al Qaeda that has stepped up attacks on Western and regional targets in the poor Arabian Peninsula state, a neighbor of oil giant Saudi Ara...

Four Yemeni soldiers killed in southern attack
ADEN | Sat Jan 8, 2011 7:07am EST ADEN (Reuters) - Armed Militants killed four Yemeni Soldiers in an attack on a checkpoint in the south of the Arab country on Saturday, a local official said, a day after 12 Soldiers were killed in a suspected al Qaeda ambush. Six Soldiers were also wounded in the attack in the southern province of Lahj, the official told Reuters. Eight Soldiers were injured on Saturday when their vehicle came under fire in the southern city of Lawdar, the site of Friday's su...

After The Deadly New Years Eve Attack Muslims Shield Christians in Egypt
We are led to believe violence and hatred against Muslims has grown since the 9-11 attacks ... and both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. But according to a recent FBI report it has not. In fact Hate Crimes against Muslims in the USA are "rare". On the other hand, another recent report has Islamic countries dominating the 2011 world watch list in persecution of Christians: Of the top 10 countries on the 2011 WWL, eight have Islamic majorities. Persecution has increased in seven of them. They are Ir...

Obama condemns attacks in Yemen
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama Saturday strongly condemned recent attacks by al-Qaida fighters that left more than a dozen Yemeni security personnel dead. John Brennan, assistant to the president, called Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh to relay Obama's personal condolences regarding the deaths attributed to attacks in the past two days by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. A statement issued by the White House said Brennan told Saleh the United States is determined to stand...

Executive Order 0?
He took the pen in left hand and signed with a flourish the first Executive Order of the New Era. The U.S. Prison facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba would be closed not less than one year from the date of his signature. The clock began ticking toward January 22, 2010. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at the ...

Pakistan frees leader with links to al-Qaeda and Taliban
Pakistani authorities have freed an alleged Terrorist leader said to have links to Al-Qaeda and Mullah Omar, the Afghan Taliban leader, citing lack of evidence that he was involved in any crimes....

France defends Niger rescue bid
The French Defence Minister Alain Juppe has defended the decision to launch a rescue attempt for two French men who had been kidnapped in Niger. The bodies of Antoine de Leocour and Vincent Delory were found after the operation on the Niger-Mali border. There has been speculation that the two men may have been killed during, or as a result of, the rescue mission. "It was a serious, difficult decision but we took it and we take full responsibility," he said, adding that President Nico...

France: al-Qaida involved in Africa kidnapping
PARIS (AP) — France’s Defense Minister said Sunday that al-Qaida linked Militants were most likely behind the Kidnapping of two French nationals in the west African nation of Niger, who were found dead following a rescue attempt that involved French and Niger Troops. Alain Juppe also defended the decision to launch the rescue mission, saying that doing nothing would have signaled to the kidnappers “that in the end France doesn’t fight Terrorism.” He said there was n...

Pakistan releases al-Qaeda jihadist, "self-declared warrior against U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan"
Friend and Ally indeed. Pakistan's Double Game Update: "Pakistan's release of Militant stirs questions," by Kathy Gannon for Associated Press, January 9 (thanks to JCB): Islamabad, Pakistan - He is a self-declared warrior against U.S. and NATO Troops in Afghanistan. He allegedly ran Terrorist training camps there when the Taliban was in power. He was suspected of involvement in the attempted Assassination of two Pakistani leaders. And today, Qari Saifullah Akhtar is free. Punjab Law Minister ...

Jihadi Work Accident: Two Taliban IED Emplacers Killed When Their Bomb Prematurely Detonates
Feel good story of the day. Kabul — Three civilians and two Militants were killed in Afghanistan Saturday in incidents including the bombing of a tractor in the troubled south of the war-torn country, officials said. The first explosion took place in Marjah district in the southern Helmand Province as a tractor carrying civilians struck a roadside mine, provincial spokesman Daud Ahmadi told AFP. Separately, two Militants were killed in Greshk district of Helmand Province Saturday as they t...

Zardaris Defense of Taseer Comes at Crucial Moment for Pakistan
The international community has been shocked and sickened by reaction in Pakistan to the Assassination of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer. Support for the Governor’s murderer was found not only within the religious parties but also from lawyers, parts of the media, and even some politicians from the mainstream political parties. This has been a wake-up call for U.S. policymakers, who now see that support for Extremist ideologies is much broader and deeper in Pakistani society than previously u...

Pakistani cop-assassin jailed after plea
KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A former Pakistani policeman was jailed Monday after pleading guilty to murdering a provincial Governor over a law banning criticism of the Prophet Mohammed. Mumatz Qadri, 26, told a judge in Karachi he was angered by Gov. Salman Taseer's opposition to the law, which carries a death penalty, and shot him 26 times. Qadri was assigned to the governor's security detail. Qadri was ordered detained on a 14-day remand pending another hearing Jan. 24. Qadri's lawyer ...