American in Qaeda Cell in Oil Co. -- Saudi Official

[kainah]

By Tabassum Zakaria

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi authorities broke up a cell of al Qaeda sympathizers who worked for Aramco oil company last year and it included an American, a Saudi official said on Friday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not provide more details about the American, who he said was among the 7-10 people captured during the summer of 2002.

A federal law enforcement official said the FBI (news - web sites) did not have any information about an American in custody in Saudi Arabia related to such an incident.

The U.S. government originally brought that individual, who was of Saudi origin with an American passport, to the attention of Saudi authorities, a U.S. source said on condition of anonymity.

Saudi Aramco is the Saudi Arabian state-owned oil company and a spokesman in Houston could not immediately be reached for comment.

more....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=7&u=/nm/20031017/ts_nm/security_saudi_dc

Curious.... I wonder what the real story is here............ Too bad we'll probably never know.

[Don_G]

1. Domestic Or Imported Al-Queda?

Funded from the UK, Germany, Phillipines or the Saudi royal family?

And why wait over a year to report the news?

[Maine-i-acs]

2. Time to invade America!

Obviously this means that the US is a state sponsor or terrorists.
/sarcasm

[asjr]

3. Oil Co

It seems we only get information from "anonymous sources." Obviously no one is in charge.