Saudi says militant dressed as woman killed last week was from Qaida
RIYADH: The think in woman's garments killed at a police checkpoint final week was an al-Qaida militant, a Saudi interior ministry pronounced upon Monday.
The male "disguised in women's clothes" killed after opening fire upon confidence forces was "a Saudi wanted for belonging to a deviant organisation (al-Qaida) as well as his involvement in rapist activities," it said.
The ministry, in a statement carried by state headlines agency SPA, named a male as Mohammed Issam Taher Baghdadi.
Two men, a single wearing a woman's black abaya robe with a face veiled, were stopped final Friday at a checkpoint in Wadi al-Dawasir, 600 kilometres (360 miles) southeast of Riyadh, an interior ministry spokesman pronounced at a time.
The a single dressed as a woman emerged from their automobile as well as began sharpened at a guards, who fired back as well as killed him, while a other male in a automobile was arrested. None of a confidence crew was wounded.
Monday's statement, however, did not discuss a second suspect.
The ministry has pronounced a strategy used to get by a checkpoint pointed to al-Qaida.
In October 2009, Saudi confidence crew killed two men dressed as women when their automobile brimful with weapons as well as self-murder explosve vests was stopped upon a highway.
The male "disguised in women's clothes" killed after opening fire upon confidence forces was "a Saudi wanted for belonging to a deviant organisation (al-Qaida) as well as his involvement in rapist activities," it said.
The ministry, in a statement carried by state headlines agency SPA, named a male as Mohammed Issam Taher Baghdadi.
Two men, a single wearing a woman's black abaya robe with a face veiled, were stopped final Friday at a checkpoint in Wadi al-Dawasir, 600 kilometres (360 miles) southeast of Riyadh, an interior ministry spokesman pronounced at a time.
The a single dressed as a woman emerged from their automobile as well as began sharpened at a guards, who fired back as well as killed him, while a other male in a automobile was arrested. None of a confidence crew was wounded.
Monday's statement, however, did not discuss a second suspect.
The ministry has pronounced a strategy used to get by a checkpoint pointed to al-Qaida.
In October 2009, Saudi confidence crew killed two men dressed as women when their automobile brimful with weapons as well as self-murder explosve vests was stopped upon a highway.
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