Saudi Arabia identifies bombers in 2 attacks this week

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Saudi Arabia identifies bombers in 2 attacks this week
AYA BATRAWY, Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia identified on Thursday suspects in two of the three attacks that struck the kingdom on the same day this week, including one outside the sprawling mosque where the Prophet Muhammad is buried in the western city of Medina that killed four Saudi security troops.

In a statement released by the Interior Ministry late Thursday, authorities said the Medina bomber in Monday's apparently coordinated attacks was 26-year-old Saudi national Na'ir al-Nujiaidi al-Balawi.

Three suicide bombers behind a botched attack, also Monday, outside a Shiite mosque in the eastern region of Qatif in which no civilians or police were wounded, were identified as Abdulrahman Saleh Mohammed, Ibrahim Saleh Mohammed and Abdelkarim al-Hesni, all in their early 20s.

It was not immediately clear what nationality or nationalities the three carried.

The ministry said investigations following the attacks led to the arrests of 19 suspects, seven Saudi and 12 Pakistani nationals. No other details were immediately available.

On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia identified the suicide bomber who struck outside the U.S. Consulate in Jiddah as a Pakistani resident of the kingdom who had arrived 12 years ago to work as a driver. It named him as 34-year-old Abdullah Qalzar Khan. It said he lived in the port city with "his wife and her parents." The statement did not elaborate.

In that attack, the bomber detonated his explosives after two security guards approached him, killing himself and lightly wounding the guards, the ministry said. No consular staff were hurt.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks but their nature and their apparently coordinated timing suggested the Islamic State group could be to blame.

Pakistan has condemned Monday's attacks in the kingdom. There are around 9 million foreigners living in Saudi Arabia, which has a total population of 30 million. Among all foreigners living in the kingdom, Pakistanis represent one of the largest groups.

The Saudi ministry said the attacker in the Medina assault set off the bomb in a parking lot after security officers became suspicious about him. Several cars caught fire and thick plumes of black smoke were seen rising from the site of the explosion as thousands crowded the streets around the mosque.

Worshippers expressed shock that such a prominent holy site could be targeted.

The Prophet Muhammad's mosque was packed on Monday evening, during the final days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ended on Tuesday. Local media say the attacker was intending to strike the mosque when it was crowded with thousands gathered for the sunset prayer.

Saudi Arabia is part of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, and the militant group views its ruling monarchy as an enemy.

The kingdom has been the target of multiple attacks by the group that have killed dozens of people. In June, the Interior Ministry reported 26 terror attacks in the last two years.


-- (c) Associated Press 2016-07-08

[marcofunny]

Wahhabi were created by the US - Allies, ISIS is backed by Israel and its allies, “We Don’t Want ISIS Defeated in Syria” General Herzi Halevy, In terms of foreign policy, the Saudi are not threatened by Israel in the slightest, Saudi Arabia is a morally bankrupt terrorist state protected by the US-EU banking mafia.

Edited July 8, 2016 by marcofunny

[Yann55]

The family in power in Saudi Arabia, strictly for political gain, spent billions since the early 1970s to spread their backwards, ultra-conservative, narrow and violent version of Islam - known was Wahhabi - throughout the Muslim world, and they've been going at it for years. Now it's blowing in their face, litterally.

Mind you, the billions in question came mostly from the West, in payment for the precious black blood that fuels not only our vehicles but also our whole economies. Which figures why the West, with the US first in line, let them get on with it and made an alliance with them that strongly resembles a pact with the devil.

[spidermike007]

What the prince is really saying, and possibly thinking is:

They are man children. They are some of the least secure men on earth. They have absolutely zero faith and trust in their women. They are really small men, with no regard for women, and frankly, little regard for ourselves. If our women show their beautiful faces to the world, then every man will want them. And if a man wants them, who knows what these women are capable of. It appears they determined that left to their own devices, their women are not capable of fidelity. Most of that nation is absolutely locked in the 12th century, and refuse to budge. Keep the women in the house, in the kitchen, or the bedroom. Let them out only with another man, who will make sure she is not getting busy with friends or strangers.

Recently a member of the religious police, There is a new hero in SA named Ammed Qassim al Ghamdi, and he is speaking out about how out of control his government is, and how they have prevented the word of the Prophet.

For years, Mr. Ghamdi stuck with the program and was eventually put in charge of the Commission for the region of Mecca, Islam’s holiest city. Then he had a reckoning and began to question the rules. So he turned to the Quran and the stories of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions, considered the exemplars of Islamic conduct. What he found was striking and life altering: There had been plenty of mixing among the first generation of Muslims, and no one had seemed to mind.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-islam-wahhabism-religious-police.html?_r=0

They are a shameful nation. If it were not for their oil, they would mean nothing to the world. No significance whatsoever, beyond their continued financial support for terror, worldwide. Personally, I do not like fracking, and the costs to the communities where it is taking place. But, if that is what it takes to wean ourselves off of these worms, than it is a good thing.