Al Qaeda chief in S. Arabia among dead

[ECH1969]

The leader of the Al Qaeda network in Saudi Arabia, Fahd bin Faraj al-Joweir, was among five militants killed in a shootout in Riyadh on Monday, the Saudi interior ministry announced.

“Joweir, 36 ... had taken charge of the criminal cells,” after other leading members were eliminated by security forces, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency on Tuesday. He had participated in last week’s foiled attack on the world’s largest oil processing plant at Abqaiq, in the kingdom’s eastern oil fields.

Another two of the five slain militants also appeared on a list of 36 most-wanted suspects, the statement added.

Ibrahim bin Abdullah al-Motair, 22, and Abdullah bin Mohaya al-Shimari, 25, were respectively numbers 11 and 15 on the list released last June.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/03/01/top14.htm

[efhmc]

1. No number two's on the list. I'm shocked.

[xchrom]

2. i think that leaves number three at large.

[Twillig]

4. Every week is an episode of The Prisoner.

always a new Number Two...

[Dhalgren]

3. Wait a minute, though...

Isn't the number one guy in Saudi like the manager of the Wal Mart in Cullman, Ala? He's the number one Wal Mart executive in Cullman, but where on the pecking-order is he nationally? Just sayin'...