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January 3, 2005
Saudi Student Was Mosul Mess Tent Suicide Bomber
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesOur friends, the Saudis.
Scotsman.com News (UK) 12:19pm:
The suicide bomber who killed 22 people when he
blew himself up in a US army mess tent the northern Iraqi city of
Mosul, was a Saudi medical student, an Arab newspaper reported today.
Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat identified him as 20-year-old Ahmed Said Ahmed al-Ghamdi, citing friends of the man's father.
The friends said members of an Iraqi resistance group contacted
al-Ghamdi's father to tell him his son was the suicide bomber who
carried out the December 21 attack, the deadliest on an American
installation in Iraq.
US officials have said their investigation indicates the bomber was
dressed in an Iraqi military uniform - but was not an Iraqi soldier -
when he slipped into a mess tent packed with soldiers eating lunch in
northern Iraq.
The father refused to discuss the suicide bombing, but told the
newspaper his son had gone to Iraq to fight the Americans and had died
there.
The paper did not name the Iraqi resistance group. But Ansar al-Sunnah,
a radical Islamic Iraqi group that has been active in northern Iraq,
claimed responsibility for the mess tent attack. Source...
Posted by Hyscience at January 3, 2005 10:41 AM
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