[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Al-Qaeda Militants Have No Respect for Saudi Scholars'

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 03:36:51 +0100
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            Thursday, 1, December, 2005 (29, Shawwal, 1426)

                  Al-Qaeda Militants Have No Respect for Saudi Scholars'
                  Arab News 
                    
                  JEDDAH, 1 December 2005 - About 90 percent of young Saudis 
who went to Afghanistan to join the jihad against the US-led Western forces 
there had no respect for the Kingdom's well-known Islamic scholars, a former 
Al-Qaeda militant, Walid Khan, told Saudi Television.

                  "About 90 percent of Saudi fighters had no respect for the 
grand mufti nor the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars in the Kingdom. They had 
no respect for well-known Saudi scholars such as Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin-Baz and 
Sheikh Abubakar Al-Jazairy," Khan said.

                  He was speaking on a TV program, "Experiences in the Name of 
Jihad," sponsored by the Interior Ministry as part of its media campaign to 
fight extremism and terrorism.

                  Khan said he had gone to northern Iraq, close to the Iranian 
border, in order to train and fight alongside Ansar Al-Sunnah, an 
Al-Qaeda-linked insurgency group.

                  In their confessions, Khan and two other former Al-Qaeda 
militants - Ziyad Ibrahim and Abdullah Khoja - spoke about their recruitment, 
training and military experience in Afghanistan and Iraq.

                  The Dubai-based Al-Arabiya News Channel broadcast the program 
on Tuesday. As a follow-up, Saudi TV presented a live seminar with experts 
discussing the reasons why Saudi youths were attracted to extremist 
organizations and the effect of extremism on individuals, the family, society, 
security and the economy.

                  Since May 2003, Saudi Arabia has been fighting a long and 
bloody battle against Al-Qaeda which is blamed for a series of shootings and 
bombings in the country. 

                  Ziyad Ibrahim recalled his experience in a training camp 
called Al-Sideeq in Afghanistan. "We trained with light arms for two to three 
weeks and there were daily drills about the Christian and Jewish conspiracy 
against Muslims," he said.

                  Ibrahim said he was part of a group of about 30 led by two 
men known as Mamdouh Al-Beiruti and Abdul Rahman. "We had to take an oath to 
remain together and be loyal to the cause," he explained.

                  Abdullah Khoja recalled, "The leader of the Uzbek mujahideen 
(holy warriors) in Afghanistan came to Taif. I met him and told him about my 
strong desire to go to Afghanistan, or any other place, and fight for God's 
cause."

                  Khoja said young Arab fighters in Afghanistan were afraid of 
being asked which country they were from. He quoted one fighter as saying, 
"Don't ask your colleagues too many questions; they may think that you are an 
intelligence officer and will keep away from you."

                  Khoja said while he was in Afghanistan, he had met fighters 
from Arab countries as well as from the United States, Britain, Germany, France 
and Daghestan. "There were also Pakistanis, Indonesians and Africans," he added.

                  Most of the Arabs were Jordanians, followers of Abu Musab 
Al-Zarqawi, Khoja said, adding that they considered Zarqawi their spiritual 
leader.

                  Some of them had been sentenced to 15 years in jail but 
because of an amnesty, they had not served their full sentence. When they were 
released, they went to Afghanistan. They were the most dangerous group as they 
considered their government, army and police to be infidels, he said.

                  Khoja pointed out that there were minor differences between 
the ideas and policies of Zarqawi and Osama Bin Laden. He said a Yemeni fighter 
had told him that one day they would enter Riyadh in victory.

                  "I was really shocked by the statement as I had never heard 
it before," Khoja said. His Eritrean camp leader later advised him to keep away 
from that particular group.
                 
           
     


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