Iraq Bomber Reportedly Saudi Med Student (AP is running it now

[Florida_Geek]

While this is a dup, the other was not US MSM

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Mosul-Bomber.html

January 3, 2005
Iraq Bomber Reportedly Saudi Med Student
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 4:47 p.m. ET

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- The suicide bomber who killed 22 people when he blew himself up in a U.S. mess hall in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was a Saudi medical student, an Arab newspaper reported Monday.

Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat identified him as 20-year-old Ahmed Said Ahmed al-Ghamdi, citing unnamed friends of the man's father. The friends said members of an Iraqi resistance group contacted al-Ghamdi's father to tell him his son was the suicide bomber who carried out the Dec. 21 attack, the deadliest on an American installation in Iraq.

The father refused to discuss the suicide bombing, but told the newspaper his son had gone to Iraq to fight the Americans and had died there. The family held a mourning ceremony the paper said. It did not say when the ceremony was held or where in Saudi Arabia the family lived.

..more at AP

[Sandpiper]

1. Uh-oh, another PR fire for Brother Bandar

To put out.

[Hobarticus]

2. Sorry, this doesn't conform to DoD regs involving insurgents....

Insurgents and suicide bombers are to be defined only as "dead-enders", not actual intelligent people.

Please take note.

[Moderator]

3. duplicate topic, please discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1117323