Militant linked by FBI to terror threats against United States among three

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

killed by Saudi security


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/09/23/international1912EDT0781.DTL

Saudi security forces killed three suspected militants, including a man wanted by the FBI for possible terrorist threats against the United States, in an apartment-building shootout Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said.

One security official was also killed in the hourslong gunfight at the three-story residential building in Jizan, about 600 miles south of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

Two suspected militants also were arrested.

The agency said one of the Saudi men killed was Sultan Jubran Sultan al-Qahtani, also known as Zubayr al-Rimi, 29. The FBI has linked the Saudi native to possible terror threats against the United States, and he also appears on a Saudi list of militants connected to May 12 suicide bombings in Riyadh that killed 25 people and nine attackers, according to a Saudi Interior Ministry official.

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