So, is he really dead this time?:
Saudi security forces have killed a man in Medina they said was the leader of al Qaeda on the Arab Peninsula, an interior ministry official told CNN.
The man identified as Saleh Al Oufi was on a Saudi list of 26 most wanted people. The Saudis have since issued a new list with 36 names, but Oufi’s death on Thursday would leave one person on the original list still free.
In a statement, a senior official at the Interior Ministry said security forces launched a number of early morning attacks in Riyadh and Medina as King Abdullah prepared to make the first official visit of his reign.
Riyadh suggested Oufi died last year in a similar shootout, yet the Islamofascist returned to the mainstream earlier this year by way of a new Greatest Hits Collection of jihadist drivel. Hopefully this time they actually have the identifiable body instead of more ineffective rhetoric designed to discourage other terrorists.
If Oufi is indeed dead, it’s not the end of al Qaeda or al Qaedaism in Saudi Arabia by any extent. The martyrdom complex is certainly high and may actually result in increased, perhaps less coordinated attacks in the immediate future (al Qaeda didn’t stop last year when Oufi was seemingly dead, going as far as to attack the US Consulate in Jeddah.) Still, it’s a start, but I’d suggest to King Abdullah that he work a bit harder on reforming that educational system of his and the massive private and public funds flowing from the Kingdom to extremist institutions the world over. Who knows, maybe one day the Saudi royal family will no longer have to worry about the very monsters it helped create.
Cross-posted from Digital Dissent