 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's top religious cleric warned Saudis on Thursday against going to neighbouring Iraq to fight what he called a ruinous jihad against US-led forces. Responding to a call to jihad (holy war) by 26 Saudi preachers on Sunday, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh said they were wrong to incite young men to go and fight in Iraq. "There is no flag to fight under and no basis to stand on and going there would be the road to ruin," the mufti told Okaz newspaper.
| "And you could die, too!" he added. |
Iraqi authorities said last month they had captured 24 suspected Saudi militants, and diplomats say many more may have slipped across the border to fight. |