June 30, 2004

THAT'S THE SPIRIT:

Top Saudi Qaeda Spiritual Guide Killed in Riyadh (Isa Mubarak, Jun 30, 2004, Reuters)

Saudi police killed a top spiritual guide for the Saudi wing of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network during a shootout in Riyadh on Wednesday, security sources said.

They named the slain militant as Abdullah al-Roshood, on a list of 26 most wanted suspects, and said his death was a hefty blow to the ideological hierarchy of al Qaeda in the world's biggest oil exporter.

The Interior Ministry said a policeman was also killed in the gun battle, the first militant violence since Saudi forces killed the leader of al Qaeda in the kingdom 12 days ago. Saudi Arabia has been battling militants trying to topple the country's pro-U.S. monarchy for more than a year.

The ministry statement said six more policemen -- and three passers-by -- were moderately to lightly wounded.


Imagine it's WWII and a leading Nazi theorist is killed in a bombing--do we suppose the Reuters headline would be: "Hitler Spiritual Guide Killed"?

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 30, 2004 5:22 PM
Comments

Spiritual guide THIS!!!

Posted by: Oswald Booth Czolgosz at June 30, 2004 9:37 PM

I notice the Saudis are still not prepared to take anyone alive.

Posted by: Dave Sheridan at July 1, 2004 12:25 AM

Imagine it's WWII...do we suppose...?

These days? Actually, yes, I'd say there's a darn good chance of that happening.

And Michael Moore can turn his skill and insight into making a film that deplores the suffering of Germans during WWII and the forced post-war expulsions of ethnic German refugees from eastern Europe; that chronicles the rehabilitation of SS troops (who, after all, were also victims of the Nazis) at places like, say, Bitburg cemetery, and the pious commemmoration of those valiant but doomed young Wehrmacht men (likewise victims of the evil Nazi war machine), ferociously, if futilely, defending the Atlantic wall against the Allied onslaught on D-Day....

Wait a minute. It's already been done? Michael Moore's been scooped?

Posted by: Barry Meislin at July 1, 2004 3:51 AM
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