Tuesday, May 15, 2007

DAR AL ISLAM - SAUDI ARABIA: USAMA BIN LADEN ISSUING FATWA'S FOR ATTACK ON OIL PLATFORM

BIN LADEN FATWA BEHIND ATTACK ON OIL PLATFORM

Riyadh, 15 May (AKI) - Osama bin Laden directly ordered the failed attack against an oil platform in Saudi Arabia in February 2006, Saudi authorities announced on Tuesday. The revelation came from a terror suspect arrested by the police accused of having given logistic support to the suicide bomb cell that sought to attack the Abqiq site. Abdullah al-Muqrin said "an operation of this nature could not be carried out without a fatwa (religious edict) from bin Laden himself and to receive it we had to wait for eight months".

A second suspect involved in the attack, Khaled al-Kurdi, revealed that "three cities and oil installations [in Saudi Arabia] had been identified by al-Qaeda as targets - Abqiq, Khobar e al-Jubeil”.

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BIN LADEN FATWA BEHIND ATTACK ON OIL PLATFORM

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