The Command Post - Iraq - Suicide bomber in northern Iraq

March 27, 2003

Suicide bomber in northern Iraq - a young Saudi

WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - The suicide bomber who killed an Australian cameraman in northern Iraq last week was a 22-year-old Saudi man who left home in the eastern Saudi city of Dammam a few months ago, a Saudi group said on Thursday.

The Saudi Institute, an independent news gathering organization in the Washington area, named the man as AbdalAziz Saud al-Gharbi, and said he left Saudi Arabia last October to join Ansar al-Islam, the militant Islamist group that ran an enclave in the Kurdish-run north of Iraq.

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Posted By Gil Shterzer (Israeli Guy) at March 27, 2003 04:57 PM | TrackBack

Comments

What?! A Saudi involved in terrorism? I'm SHOCKED, SHOCKED, I tell you!

Posted by: Robert Crawford at March 27, 2003 05:02 PM

What are the odds?!?

Posted by: P.T.Burnem at March 27, 2003 05:33 PM

Just goes to show you we're bombing the wrong Arab country. Those fuckin Saudi's should have been first on the list, and screw all their damned oil.

Posted by: h8er at March 27, 2003 06:03 PM

This is just another example of "hateful" reporting. That young man could have come from a broken home, had low self-esteem and may have been desperately seeking attention. To link him with a terrorist activity because he is a Saudi is mean spirited. Come on people, big hug for our "friends" the Saudis and all their disaffected youth.
I care, you care, we all care.

Posted by: Genghis at March 27, 2003 06:09 PM

If there were militant, meddling foreigners tramping through my country & presuming to tell me how to run my life, or intruding on my lifestyle & reporting to a foreign press how backward my culture is, I'd be tempted to suicide-bomb them too.

Posted by: B Jennings at March 28, 2003 07:31 PM