Al-Qaida refuses the Saudi Amnesty proposal
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 7/10/2004

The "al-Qaida organization in the Arab peninsula " yesterday rejected the pardoning proposed by King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz on June 23 for the wanted Islamists fighters who would announce their redemption within a one month period.

This rejection came in a statement issued in issue number 20 of " Sawt al-Jihad news " bulletin which belongs to al-Qaida organization on the Internet and undersigned by Saud Bin Mahmoud al-Oteibi who is listed on the 26 most wanted members of the list of wanted Saudis.

Under the title " determined to continue this way," al- Oteibi gave his "condolences to the nation" on the killing of Abdul Aziz al-Muqarran, the presumed leader of al-Qaida organization who was killed by the Saudi security forces in Riyadh on june 18. Al-Oteibi rejected what they called " pardoning from a Tyranny," calling on the Mujahideen to continue " the Jihad."

The same website on Friday broadcast a tape for member of the organization in Saudi Arabia, Fahd Bin Ali al-Dakheel, before his killing at the hands of the Saudi security forces in Riyadh this week, in which he called for joining the lines of al-Qaida to expel the westerners from Saudi Arabia and to topple the ruling family which " supports the USA." The website issued a message attributed to Turkey al-Muteiri, one of the persons who took part in May attack against the Saudi city of al-Khober in which some 22 civilians, most of them were foreigners were killed. It said that al-Muteiri who was killed by the police in June, wrote a message to Osama Bin laden 24 hours before the attacks in which he said he is ready to be a martyr and he asks the Almighty God to give them victory.

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