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AQAP Operative Hid Explosives in his Buttocks: Al Arabyia

Filed under: Al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia, TI: External, Yemen, prince — by Jane Novak at 11:20 am on Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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Gulf Daily News: KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia has tightened security at oil facilities after the country’s anti-terror chief, Deputy Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, escaped a suicide attack, guards at Abqaiq, the world’s biggest oil processing plant, said yesterday….

Al Qaeda, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for the suicide attack and said that the bomber, Abdullah Hassan Taleh Al Asiri, had managed to pass security checkpoints and board a private aircraft, Site Intelligence said yesterday…Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV said Asiri was a 23-year-old Saudi whose brother Ibrahim was also on the wanted list.

It said the attacker concealed the explosives in his anus, allowing him to evade detection.

The network also quoted an expert as saying that the method of concealment aimed the blast away from the target, while blowing the bomber to bits….

2 Comments »

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Comment by Jersey Dave

9/3/2009 @ 5:15 pm

FIRE IN THE HOLE!

Glad no one else was hit. Problem is they may learn from this and be more dangerous next time.

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Comment by Jane Novak

9/4/2009 @ 5:39 am

yeah Dave, thats always the problem.

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