Saudi Royal Escapes Assassination Attempt
September 1st, 2009How did the assassin get so close to Mohammed Bin Naif with a bomb? I read several articles about this incident and none of them made any sense. Surely, the security procedures would have revealed the bomb. Right?
Yes, friends, behold: The rectum-packed-with-explosives trick.
Via: The Media Line:
New details reveal the man who tried to assassinate a Saudi prince got past palace security with explosives hidden in his rectum.
The man who tried to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s anti-terror chief last Thursday managed to get past security in a Jeddah palace by hiding explosives in his rectum.
Details of the assassination attempt, the first against a member of the Saudi royal family in decades, were revealed to the pan-Arab Al-Arabiyya.
The method of hiding explosives inside the body is unprecedented among Al-Qa’ida terrorists, and may draw a re-examination and alteration of security arrangements around sensitive facilities and individuals in the Saudi kingdom.
The man targeted, Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, is assistant to the Interior Minister for Security Affairs, and is spearheading the fight against terrorism.
The assailant called the Ministry of Interior and asked to declare his repentance in front of the prince and make a statement urging his peers to abandon Al-Qa’ida’s ideologies.
On Thursday evening, he went to the prince’s palace in the coastal town of Jeddah and sailed through the security checks with the undetected explosives inside him.
When the prince was informed of his arrival, he walked into a six-by-seven-meter long room next to his office in the palace to greet the man he thought would be a remorseful terrorist.
The terrorist came to the entrance of the room and the prince moved towards the door to usher him in. He greeted him and invited him to sit down on one of the sofas, while the prince himself sat on another sofa no more than two meters away from where the bomber was located.
The prince got a call on his cell phone and began talking, and at that moment the bomber detonated the explosives.
So wait, let me get this straight. The guy blew up his own ass in order to try and take out a saudi royal? What’s next – a false penis made of Semtex?
The video footage would make interesting viewing.