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...could take the city, but we would have to kill everyone in it." MOHAMMED ABDULLAH al-SHAHWANI, director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, on the difficulty of putting down a growing insurgency in the city of Fallujah...
...talk is cheap in Baghdad. But if the new interim government in Iraq is going to prevail in what Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vows will be a "showdown" with the insurgency ravaging the country, it will need to put serious muscle behind the bluster. That's where General Mohammed Abdullah al-Shahwani, the recently named boss of the newly formed Iraqi Intelligence Service, comes in. As Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh says of him, "Terrorism is fought best with intelligence...
...have killed three Americans in the past month, including Paul Johnson, an engineer and a 20-year veteran of Saudi Arabia who was kidnapped and beheaded. After Johnson's murder, Saudi security forces killed the purported leader of alQaeda in Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz alMuqrin. Last week Crown Prince Abdullah announced an amnesty for extremists willing to surrender over the period of one month. The government also announced that for the first time, foreigners will be allowed to carry weapons...
...open the door of pardon ... to anyone who deviated from the right path and committed a crime in the name of religion." CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH BIN ABDUL AZIZ AL SAUD of Saudi Arabia, offering a partial amnesty to Islamic militants who turn themselves in to the government in the wake of a rising number of terrorist attacks in the kingdom...
...Saudi monarchy, and Libyan officials claim that the Saudis are funding Libyan opposition groups. A Libyan source close to Gaddafi says, "Those groups tried to kill the leader twice," and adds that Mohamed Ismael, a Libyan in Saudi custody as a suspect in the alleged plot against Abdullah, was merely financing Saudi reformers. The source says the accusations are part of a Saudi smear campaign against Saudi dissidents. For their part, fumes a well-placed Saudi source, "we are fed up with these people. It is better for us to be rid of this regime." Whatever the truth...