Saudi Arabia seeking 47 al-Qaida suspects abroad

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...

Unemployed Saudi teachers stage rare Riyadh protest
Riyadh | Sun Jan 9, 2011 6:51am EST Riyadh (Reuters) - A group of 250 unemployed Saudi university graduates staged a rare Protest in the capital Riyadh, and the group's spokesman vowed on Sunday to keep up the demonstrations till the Gulf Arab state creates jobs for them. The U.S. ally and OPEC's biggest oil exporter is an absolute monarchy and usually does not tolerate public displays of dissent. Newspapers tend to carry the official line. Despite its massive oil wealth Saudi Arabia is grapp...

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...

Israeli Scientist To Saudi Arabia: Can We Have Our Vulture Back?
An Israeli scientist is calling for Saudi Arabia to return a tagged vulture that Saudi officials reportedly arrested this week on suspicion of being a Mossad spy. Haaretz reported this week that "residents and local reporters told Saudi Arabia's Al-Weeam newspaper that the matter seemed to be a 'Zionist plot,'" after the bird was picked up wearing a transmitter labeled "Tel Aviv University." Here's video from the UK's Telegraph of avian ecologist Ohad Hatzofe, who says the bird was only tagge...

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...

March14 to Saudi Arabia: 'We need US$3 billions to regenerate...'
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Loving Saudi Arabia ....again
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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...

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...

Parcel for DHS Chief Caught Fire in Latest Incendiary Attack
The latest in what officials say is a growing campaign of incendiary attacks, a package addressed to Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano caught fire in a DC postal facility. The package burnt itself out and no injuries were reported. The package came just a day after two Maryland packages sent to the Governor and transportation secretary also burst into flames. Officials say those packages contained a letter complaining about a highway sign calling for Maryland residents to ...

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...

Sadr Backs Maliki Govt, Slams US Occupation in Speech
The first Speech of the increasingly powerful anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr since his return to Iraq came today in Najaf, and he offered qualified support for the Maliki government, saying he would continue to support them so long as they were working to make the situation in Iraq better. But when it came to the US occupation, the position was less conciliatory, as Sadr urged Maliki to follow through on his promise to get the US Troops out and insisted that Iraqis should stop fighting amongst...

US Drone Strike Kills at Least Six in North Waziristan
Pakistani officials confirmed that a US drone launched at least four missiles at a house and vehicle in the North Waziristan Agency’s Datta Khel town, killing at least six people and wounding an unknown number of others. The Pakistani officials termed all of the Victims “alleged Terrorists,” but conceded that they had absolutely no information about the identities of any of those slain in the attack. The US, as usual, has not commented at all on the attack. The attack was jus...

Al-Qaida gunmen kill 17 soldiers in Yemen
SANAA, Yemen -- Suspected al-Qaida fighters killed at least 17 Yemeni Soldiers in a pair of ambushes in the country's restive south on Friday, officials said. Both attacks took place near the town of Lawder in Abyan province, some 155 miles (250 kilometers) southeast of the capital of Sanaa. In the deadliest strike, gunmen killed 13 Soldiers escorting a convoy of water tankers, said the province's deputy Governor, Salih al-Shamsi. He said the assailants fled and army units were pursuing them. I...

Israeli Troops Kill Sleeping Palestinian in Night Raid
Israeli Military forces launched a pre-dawn Raid against the Palestinian city of Hebron today, aiming to re-arrest a number of Hamas members that had been released the day before. In the course of breaking into one of the homes, Israeli Troops opened fire on a sleeping elderly man who was not one of the targets of the raid, killing him. The Israeli Military said they “regret” the killing of 65-year-old Amr Qawasme, but that the raids to rearrest the Hamas members were vital. Qawasm...

UK warns US of terror threat to British aviation
The official would not give details, but indicated that British authorities told American counterparts Thursday that they were monitoring all forms of transit in Britain out of caution. The move follows a heightened state of alert that lasted throughout the December holidays. The official insisted on anonymity to discuss the classified matters. American and European Counterterrorism authorities had been tracking intelligence of possible terror attacks in Europe over Christmas and New Year, plann...

Obama Signs Law Blocking Gitmo Closure
In the latest example of President Obama having his cake and eating it too on the Detention Center at Guantanamo Bay, he has angrily expressed his “strong objection” to a Congressional measure that would block his promised closure of the facility. Then, he signed it. According to his official statement, even though he has “consistently opposed” the effort to block the closure (which is a flat out lie, because his administration has praised previous Congressional efforts...

Al-Qaeda Ambushes Kill 17 Soldiers in Yemen
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) forces ambushed a Yemeni Military convoy today in the southern Abyan Province, killing at least 13 Soldiers who were escorting a shipment of water tankers. Not long after, a second ambush against a convoy carrying the same brigade’s commander was also hit, killing four others and wounding two more. The commander was said to have been unharmed in the attack. The twin attacks are the first major strikes of the new year in Yemen, and suggest that the...

Clinton backs Lebanon tribunal in Hariri meeting
By Louis Charbonneau NEW YORK | Fri Jan 7, 2011 11:29pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton voiced support for a U.N.-backed tribunal probing the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri when she met his son, who is Lebanon's current premier, on Friday. The government of Saad al-Hariri has been paralyzed for months by political tension over the investigation into the 2005 bombing that killed his father, a powerful Sunni Muslim politician. Diplomats exp...

The Leftist Fantasy of an Israeli Theocracy Gets Hysterical
Future Mideast reporter for The Atlantic? In 2008, the Westminster City Council passed Legislation banning sandwich boards. The end was truly nigh for the classic sandwich board-bearing man proclaiming the imminence of the apocalypse. You had to feel for a guy who lost the opportunity to do what he considered an important job. But just as the boy who cried wolf, the “end is nigh” sandwich board man warned of disaster too consistently to have any credibility. The slew of leftist commentator...

Saudis persecute the victim in rape case
Image via Wikipedia Saudi Gazette: A 23-year-old unmarried woman was awarded one-year Prison term and 100 lashes for committing Adultery and trying to abort the resultant fetus. The District Court in Jeddah pronounced the verdict on Saturday after the girl confessed that she had a forced Sexual Intercourse with a man who had offered her a ride. The man, the girl confessed, took her to a rest house, east of Jeddah, where he and four of friends assaulted her all night long. ...The Saudis blame ...

Clinton meets Lebanon PM, Saudi king in New York
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed growing tensions in Lebanon with the country's Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Saudi King Abdullah at separate meetings in New York, officials said. Clinton reaffirmed strong US support for Lebanon's independence and for the work of the UN-backed tribunal that is investigating the 2005 Assassination of Hariri's father, Rafiq, a source who attended the Clinton-Hariri meeting said. The Saudi ambassador to Washington also met Hariri and it was not excl...

Clinton Backs Lebanon Sovereignty
(NewsCore) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday discussed growing tensions in Lebanon with the country's Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Saudi King Abdullah at separate meetings in New York, officials said. Clinton reaffirmed strong US support for Lebanon's independence and for the work of the UN-backed tribunal that is investigating the 2005 Assassination of Hariri's father, Rafiq, a source who attended the Clinton-Hariri meeting said. The Saudi ambassador to Washington also met Har...

Like he never left
Hillary and Bill Clinton meet Saudi King Abdullah recuperating from surgery at an apartment in New York City. Photo: Saudi Press Agency ...