The killing of Kuwaitis Rajeh Al-Ajmi and Abdullah Jabarah in a police raid in the southern Saudi Jouf region last Thursday "confirms the presence of a terrorist network posing eminent threat against Kuwait and the Gulf region," say high-ranking Kuwaiti security sources. These sources highlighted the need for comprehensive Gulf coordination. Sources said the terrorist network recently busted in Saudi Arabia includes persons from a number of countries, especially Gulf states. "We (Kuwait) have not yet received anything official from the Jouf region on the killing of Al-Ajmi and Jabarah," said the sources. They added the name of Al-Ajmi, 21, came up in the Camp Doha case which resulted in the death of a civilian American and seriously injuring another. The fourth suspect in the case, identified only as B.K., stated during interrogation Al-Ajmi was accompanying him when he delivered the weapon used in the operation to Sami Al-Mutairi, the prime suspect in the case. Al-Ajmi had been, however, acquitted due to lack of evidence. The sources said Al-Ajmi was absent throughout the police investigations in the Camp Doha case.
| Guess we'll know where he is from now on, huh? |
B.K. had stated during questioning that Al-Ajmi was in favour of delivering the weapon to Al-Mutairi to carry out the attack, "though he had recently joined the group." The sources said Al-Ajmi was a cadet at the fire department. He joined a training course earlier this year and successfully completed the training but he did not join his work centre in Sabhan.
| Setting off explosives is even more exciting that putting out fires... |
Saudi authorities had earlier said two Kuwaitis, identified as Rajeh bin Hassan Al-Ajmi and AbdulRahman Jabarah, and Saudi national Turki Al-Dandani — the prime suspect among 19 others wanted in the recent Riyadh blasts — were among four men killed in a police raid in the southern Saudi Skaka region near the Yemeni borders Thursday. Kuwaiti authorities, however, said only Al-Ajmi is a Kuwaiti while Jabarah is an Iraqi born in Kuwait, but holding a Canadian citizenship.
| ... though actually a citizen of al-Qaeda... |
The four men were killed when Special Saudi police stormed the residence of a mosque Imam in Soubar in the southern Jouf district. Saudi authorities said in a statement, five terrorists, who were hiding in the Imam's residence, exchanged heavy fire with police forces. The statement added four of the suspects, including Al-Dandani, Al-Ajmi, Jabarah and Ammash Al-Sabaei - a Saudi national - were killed in the fight. |