JEDDAH, 2 January 2005 — One of the terrorists appearing on the Interior Ministry’s list of 26 most wanted, was among five suicide bombers killed while carrying out Wednesday’s car bombings in Riyadh. The remains of the five bombers were found at the sites of the two attacks. The militants detonated bomb-rigged cars outside the Ministry of Interior and a Special Forces base.
Apart from the militants who were killed in the attack no civilian or security personnel were killed, a ministry statement said. The statement said the dead bombers included Abdullah Saud Abdul Aziz Al-Subaie, who was on the list of 26 most wanted. He was the 20th on the list to have been killed or captured.
Al-Subaie was described as “starting his activities with the deviant group by renting cars used for smuggling weapons and explosives and for bombings.”
He was also “one of the criminals who carried out the bombing of Al-Muhaya Compound in Riyadh in November 2003 which killed 17 people.
Another militant identified to have been killed in Wednesday’s attack was Muhammad Mohsin Al-Ossaimi, 22, who had been previously detained on suspicion of having ties with the terrorists but was released after renouncing terrorism and also because of his young age.
A third militant who died in the attack outside the premises of the Ministry of Interior could not be identified because of the damage to his body caused by the blast and experts were working to confirm his identity.
The other two militants who attacked the special security base were identified as Dakheel Abdul Aziz Dakheel Muhammad Al-Obeid and Nasser Ali Saad Al-Mutairi. The ministry said Al-Obeid was “among those who kidnapped and killed a foreign resident”, an apparent reference to American aeronautics engineer Paul Johnson.
