Yes, a citizen of our friend and ally Saudi Arabia. Also, note that he was a medical student, not some desperately poor fellow driven to this by his lack of opportunities in life. From AP, with thanks to all who sent this in:
CAIRO, Egypt - The suicide bomber who killed 22 people when he blew himself up in a U.S. mess hall in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was a Saudi medical student, an Arab newspaper reported Monday.The Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat identified him as 20-year-old Ahmed Said Ahmed al-Ghamdi, citing unnamed friends of the man’s father. The friends said members of an Iraqi resistance group contacted al-Ghamdi’s father to tell him his son was the suicide bomber who carried out the Dec. 21 attack, the deadliest on an American installation in Iraq.
The father refused to discuss the suicide bombing, but told the newspaper his son had gone to Iraq to fight the Americans and had died there. The family held a mourning ceremony the paper said. It did not say when the ceremony was held or where in Saudi Arabia the family lived.
When I look at what a hive of nasty insects Saudi Arabia is, I look at it in depth and I try to think of one single islamic country that I think poses more of a threat, and is more deserving of being attacked.
Iran often springs to mind , as does Pakistan, but then I think about all the links between Saudi Arabia and 9/11 and Al Qaeda. Nearly all of the wads of filth involved in 9/11 where Saudis, including Bin Laden himself, and Zawarhi.Al Qaeda is a Saudi group. The heart of the Wahabbi sect dwells within Saudi Arabia ( the root of the most extreme fundamentalists, the most miserable , repressed muslim women, the most hardcore fanatical islamic nutcases, the "to the letter" followers of satans best seller the Koran.
And last but not least we have of course the House of Saud. That set of sweaty, obnoxious, raheads that seem to always be either smirking, sneering , frowning (or some other negative facial expression) in every photograph. A bunch of hypocrits who would most certainly help stone a woman to death for commiting adultery, yet often visit Amsterdam strip clubs, drooling over strippers and lap dancers with a pint of Vodka in their non-groping-hands.
These filthy sand-snakes, are the one and only reason Bush and Blair call Saudi Arabia an "Ally", yet at the same time are a hugh percentage of the reason islamic terrorism gets so much money fed into it. These hairy, sweaty hogs simultaneously keep fundamentalist , absolutist islam alive and functioning to breed the exact monsters they need to play the jihad game, whilst making sure all the top terror groups have an everlasting supply of funds.
Saudi Arabia is the root of all the worst problems we face from islam, and our leaders have the gall to call them "allies", then expect us to swallow that shite.
If ever there was a case for obliterating a nation, reducing each of it's cities to glass, and it's oil wells to great fountains of fire, then that case is for Saudi Arabia.
Know Saudis, no allies!!!
Much frustration in the West stems from the projection of the Western notion of nation-state onto the Arab society. The "country" of Saudi Arabia is better described as a family with a flag. There is no "state" in Saudi Arabia, there are only tribes. The dominant tribe is the one who has most recently defeated its rivals in tribal war. Today, that tribe is the Bani al-Sa'ud, tomorrow it could be their chief rival, Bani al-Rashid (Rashidi Arabia?). The Arabs have never successfully transcended tribalism, even at the height of pan-Arab nationalism in the wake of the collapse of the Ottoman empire in the 20th century. Nationalism is a naturally unstable configuration in Arab society (I'll let game theorists explain this).
The point is that there are no state level entities to punish or even with which to have nation-state diplomatic relations. There are only despotic tribal leaders to hold to account. The Bani al-Sa'ud has plundered the other tribes on the Arabian Peninsula for more than 80 years with no serious resistance but their ability to continue is beginning to falter. Raiding and dividing spoils is the only economic model the Arabs know. Think of it as a sort of micro-mercantilism. It is amusing to note that the diffusion of goods throughout the Arabian Peninsula over the centuries was not so much the result of trade but has traditionally been driven by plunder.
One can only remain at the top of that heap for so long since everybody you are plundering wants to be in your place and eventually someone figures out how to knock you off the perch. Bani al-Sa'ud has been there now for 14 minutes and 59 seconds, quite a remarkable feat in that part of the world.
Why should this suprise anyone? Saudi Arabia is the foremost incubator and distributor of militant jihadism. They teach hate in their schools, preach hate in their mosques and finance hate in the form of groups like al-Qaeda, Hamas and CAIR, to name a few. Follow the money trail, it invariably leads back to Riyadh.
Hulegu Khan
Today, that tribe is the Bani al-Sa'ud, tomorrow it could be their chief rival, Bani al-Rashid (Rashidi Arabia?).
Got a little gut feeling it,s going to be [Bin Lardon Arabia]
Rikki
If ever there was a case for obliterating a nation, reducing each of it's cities to glass,This you have my support 100%
The oil we should take care of,you know finders keepers,and we found it,and we like jerks gave it to them,time to take it back
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Rikki
Dont know who,s spelling is worst,yours or mine
"Jihadi Terrorism - 2005"
by B.Raman 31.12.2004
http://www.internet-haganah.co.il/harchives/003412.html
Excerpt:
"The situation in the Saudi Arabia-Iraq region is comparable to the situation, which prevailed in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region pre-9/11 and which continues to prevail to some extent even today--with the situation in one country feeding terrorism in the other and vice versa and with the suspected complicity of some sections of the military-intelligence establishment in Saudi Arabia apparently providing oxygen to the terrorists."
Is anyone surprised the perpetrator is a Saudi!
A Medical Student who obviously never took the Infidel Hippocratic Oath to 'save lives.'In my humble opinion, war in Iraq was a big mistake.Saudi Arabia is OUR ENEMY No 1 and OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN OUT AND OIL RESERVES SECURED,ALSO CONTROL OVER MECCA.When there is a
gangrenous wound putting a bandage on it will never contain it.Best thing is amputation of afflicted limb, something our Muslim friends know all about...
its too bad that some arabs take pride in a kamikaze act, ill bet his family is proud of him! killing is easy; helping is the real giving of oneself with proven self satisfaction and perhaps a place in heaven.
You're so right francis. It is much harder to Create than it is to Destroy.
I just have to wonder, how in the hell in the most dangerous place in the world for an american to be, is it possible for some scum bag to just walk into a military installation and blow the place up? Who in the name of god is suspose to be responsible for the security on our military bases? Damn, there's no security anywhere in that country, at the very least there should be some on the military bases where our personnel can feel somewhat safe.This kind of shit, this unrestricted killing of our soldiers at will by those rag tag bunch of psychopaths cannot keep going on like this indefinitely. Just caught the news awhile ago, more US soldiers killed in another road side bombing. The Governor of Baghdad killed in an ambush,More Iraqi national guardmen killed.
I'm very concerned that the the American people are going to reach their maxium level of patience and start to see that situation over there as a shithole with no winable outcome. Dare I say the "V" word? I do see parallels though.Arms, munitions, men, financial aid coming in across the borders and our military's inability to do anything about it because of the politics.
I'm of the opinion that our political leadership, the state department and our military leaders better get their act together pretty quick and get that hell hole turned around over there before the anti war crowd starts to take to the streets en-masse and demand a pullout.
Yes, it's so frustrating to have Saudis spit in our faces, time and time again. They're evil vermin. If they're not breeding mass murderers in their own oily cesspit, they're funding them in other countries. In our own countries. We would have a lot less mosques infesting the Western landscape, and less vitriolic ones, if it weren't for the disgusting Saudis.
I wish world politics were simpler, that we could just take over that cesspit of inbred vermin. Boy, would that make the Islamic world angry! Their so-called "holy sites of Islam" under US (filthy kufr) occupation. I get a chuckle out of that.
Medical student?
From where? The toilet-plunger-for-open-heart-massage-clinic of "Dr. Benway" from William Burroughs' "Naked Lunch"?
I guess "First do no harm" translates into Arabic without the "no", (perhaps they don't like the inherent judgementalism of Hippocrates' original).
Meanwhile, security in Iraq needs to learn the word "serious".
Or "frisk", at the very least.
To quote the last words of someone in another war:
"Give them the cold steel, men!"
-Gen. Lewis A. Arminstead
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Shiva,
When I'm on a ranting spree, spelling takes a back seat to blindly posting comments at the peak of rage. It's not that I can't spell it's more that I never bother checking my comments before I post them, and always end up wishing I had checked.
Would you say bad spelling fucks up the flow of a comment, or that it highlights that the poster in question is too hasty at typing???
krkrjak,
I see exactly where you're coming from.
Basically when it comes to who is best at winning battles, our boys and girls win hands down (most battles result in a large pile of islamo-facist corpses, with barely an allied soldier wounded).... in fact most casualties of allies are down to cowardly suicide attacks like the one mentioned above.
However , I'm starting to think now that if after the elections, everythings still the same, we get out of there and let kill each other, while we sit back with a huge bucket of popcorn, laughing at it on the TV. We've done what we can, we've taken out Saddams regime, we've offered them a chance at joining the real world, the developing world, and they just throw it back in our faces, dancing to the tune of every left-wing news outlet that's dumb enough to take pity on them.
If this attempt at democracy in Iraq does work out , it will be a great blow to islamic extremism, if not it will just be a massive waste of time , money and western lives.
Typo: .... we get out of there and let them kill each other...