January 03, 2005
Mess Hall Bomber was Saudi National
- The Scotsman (via Hyscience)
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.
Saudi nationals fighting a jihad while giving up their lives to attack Americans is nothing new, though that does not make is less disturbing. The man was reportedly recently married before he decided his wife must be too ugly not to want the 72 virgins promised by Jihadis when one martyrs himself.
For background information on the mess hall suicide bombing, click here for the initial news, here for an update and here for the communique relased by Ansar al-Sunna.
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
By Chad at January 3, 2005 10:41 AM
Sorry. Comments down.....AGAIN!!!!
