The Wahabi Storm of Hatred Attacks its Creators

[onedomino]

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Does it surprise anyone that the poison injected into the world by Saudi Arabia has now come back to infect its point of origin? The Sunni Wahabi storm of hatred has now turned against its creators.

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Suicide Bomber Attacks Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Published: December 30, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/international/middleeast/30saudi.html (might require registration)

AIRO, Dec. 29 - Militants apparently linked to Al Qaeda turned two neighborhoods of Riyadh, the Saudi capital, into battle zones late Wednesday, with booby-trapped cars exploding outside the landmark Interior Ministry and a training center for Emergency Forces. Seven militants responsible for the car bombings were gunned down in a police ambush of a house, according to a statement read on state television, but the final toll from all the attacks remained unclear.
The initial toll elsewhere included 2 suicide bombers killed and 20 people wounded, including police officers who suffered light injuries, mostly from flying glass, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry and various officials. Prince Ahmed Abdel Aziz, the longtime deputy interior minister, went on Saudi television to denounce the attackers as criminals who were heedless about risking Muslim lives. (But certainly it would have been ok if these guys were homicide bombers attacking Israel or American forces in Iraq.) The effect of the attacks was more psychological than physical, however. They showed that the militants are still capable of striking in the very heart of the capital despite an 19-month, nationwide police crackdown that, the police say, has killed or captured three-quarters of the most wanted terrorists inspired by Al Qaeda and dismantled much of their network. (they insisted, as they whistled by the graveyard) Hundreds of suspected sympathizers have been detained. General Turki described the attacks as the actions of increasingly desperate militants. "When you get closer and closer and closer to them, they react to show that they are still there," he said. "This building is the symbol of the forces that are attacking them, confronting them," he said of the Interior Ministry. But the fact that the latest attacks did so little damage - especially compared to earlier assaults against residential compounds that killed nearly 100 people, many of them foreigners - is a sign that the police are curbing the militants' ability to act, the general said. "We can read their weakness through the results of their work," he said. The bombings were the second such brazen attack in December after a relatively quiet period following the beheading of an American hostage in June. On Dec. 6, attackers stormed the heavily guarded United States Consulate in Jidda, killing five local employees before four of the five gunman were shot dead. In a tape-recorded message 10 days later, Osama bin Laden praised the Jidda attack and threatened attacks against Saudi oil facilities. Previous attacks by the group, including a bombing of a police headquarters in Riyadh last April, sharply reduced public support for the idea that Al Qaeda was engaged in a religiously sanctioned holy war to drive all non-Muslims from Islam's holy land. Despite the relative puniness of the attacks, oil markets quickly reacted to the violence with a jittery bump up in prices, with key prices in the United States rising $1.87 a barrel, to $43.64. The first explosion outside the ministry could be felt across the capital around 9 p.m., with a plume of smoke visible from the diplomatic quarter several miles away, a Western diplomat said. The bomb erupted at the beginning of a traffic underpass along a major road that leads past the ministry, twisting open a portion of the high metal fence around the fortresslike structure and tearing some letters off the facade of a guard house. The explosion shook buildings all around the area, including the Inter-Continental Hotel, which sits within a sprawling compound right across the street. Television pictures showed a bloody and battered taxi that apparently absorbed some of the explosion, jackknifed across the road leading down into the underpass. In the second attack, police officers opened fire at a car trying to ram its way into a training center of the Emergency Forces, which concentrate on antiterrorism recently. The car exploded 350 yards away, the official statement read on Saudi television said. Exactly how the ensuing car chase was related remained murky, but local news reports and officials said the police surrounded the occupants of the car in a house in a residential area toward the airport, killing all seven of them. The statement said they were responsible for the two earlier attacks. The attacks followed skirmishes earlier in the week that left one militant dead, two injured and several more arrested.

 

[Said1]

Does it surprise anyone that the poison injected into the world by Saudi Arabia has now come back to infect its point of origin? The Sunni Wahabi storm of hatred has now turned against its creators.

It doesn't surprise me at all. Look at Wahabism and it's roots, I'm surprised they've shown so much restraint.

 

[NATO AIR]

i'm wondering when they (a) kick off the saudi civil war or (b) kill the royal family's main figureheads