Re: Al Queda Strikes the Saudis

The DEBKA Saudi-saga continues (they're back on the good-stuff path
for now).

It's enough to make Americans react to any activist Supreme Court
ruling about Guantanamo by forcibly relocating all prisoners to the
Bible Belt and forcing them to have to listen to lectures by Pat
Robertson and others translated into Arabic.

Usama bin Laden, ekhta sharmuta, eat shit, die, and suck donkey dicks
in hell for beer money while having to listen to "700 Club" and "Dr.
Laura" during any intermission (still a Bible Belt radio staple),
because the Pope says God wills it!

...

[DEBKA]

Al Qaeda Imports Lebanese Unit to Blast Riyadh's Muhaya


The suicide bombing attack Saturday night November 9 that devastated
Riyadh's Muhaya compound and killed scores was the work of an al Qaeda
Lebanese team, according to our intelligence and counter-terror
sources. With this strike, Osama bin Laden's Lebanese arm made its
debut on the stage of international terror.

DEBKAfile has been reporting for more than a year that the Islamic
network had built up three concentrations in Lebanon -- in Tripoli in
the north, Beirut, and the Palestinian Ain Hilweh refugee camp in the
south. Pointers to a Lebanese hit-team accumulated in the hands of
Saudi intelligence and American counter-terror agencies in the Middle
East 48 hours before the suicide bombers struck the Riyadh compound.
The group was reported to be made up of al Qaeda operatives, Lebanese
nationals, and their Palestinian recruits.

In our 10 November on this page, we revealed the presence of Al
Qaeda's Nigerian cells secreted into the kingdom among the swarms of
pilgrims visiting Mecca for Ramadan. One such cell was thwarted in its
attempt to bring off a terrorist attack in the Muslim holy city. The
Lebanese unit succeeded in its mission in Riyadh, but the wave of
Islamic terror may not be spent. Security forces in Riyadh, Jeddah,
and Mecca are braced for further assaults while a top terror alert was
extended Monday, November 10, to the Sudanese capital of Khartoum,
where the US embassy decided to temporarily suspend operations until
the peril had passed.

Al Qaeda's targeting of Muhaya and its Arab population at first
puzzled Saudi and foreign counter-terror authorities -- until it was
realized that many of the casualties were Lebanese Christians and the
assailants Lebanese Muslims. The terrorist network had very pointedly
opted to sow death inside a focus of Christian habitation in the
Muslim kingdom on the Muslim feast of Ramadan.

The same mind-set is behind the terror alert declared in Sudan Monday,
November 10. Here, the Al Qaeda poses a threat not only to US
diplomatic missions but to the peace talks between the Muslim
government and the Christian rebels of the south. Notices appearing of
late on al Qaeda-linked Websites call specifically for all possible
action to abort Sudan's conversion from "an Arab-Muslim state to a
country ruled by Christians."

Monday, November 10, saw yet another turn of the Islamic extremist
screw. DEBKAfile's counter terror sources reveal that one of the heads
of the authoritative Al Azhar university of Cairo issued a new fatwa
stating that those fighting the holy war, the jihad, are permitted to
break the sacred fast of Ramadan and eat during the day. This edict
sanctifies Islamic suicide terrorism and raises it to a degree of
holiness above that of Ramadan.

Israel is extremely disturbed by the effective teaming up of
Lebanon-based al Qaeda operatives with local cells in Saudi Arabia for
suicide strikes against non-Muslim targets in the Middle East. Bin
Laden's banner declares war "Crusaders (Christians) and Jews."
DEBKAfile has reported the belief that al Qaeda sleepers have been
present in Palestinian areas for some time. The network may also have
planted cells in Israel and they could be waiting for orders to
strike.