McDonnell, Patrick J.,
Confessions of a Saudi Militant in Iraq. Patrick J. McDonnell. - Los Angeles Times, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 30, Family, 1522-3213; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: Confessions of a Saudi Militant in Iraq, Feb. 19, 2005; pp. A8-A9.
This article relates the story of a 20-year-old high school dropout from Saudi Arabia who participated in a December 24, 2004, truck bombing in the Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq. Ahmed Abdullah Abdul-Rahman Alshai survived the attack that killed 12 people and confessed to his role in a television interview aired by the Iraqi government. Alshai is now [Feb. 2005] in "Abu Ghraib, the notorious U.S. lockup west of Baghdad. He is one of more than 8,000 U.S. prisoners in Iraq dubbed security risks in a war that U.S. officials once dismissed as being waged by no more than 5,000 'dead-enders.'...He won't be getting out anytime soon." (LOS ANGLES TIMES)
1522-3213;
Iraq War (2003)--Prisoners and prisons
Jihad
Suicide bombings
AC1.S5
050
Confessions of a Saudi Militant in Iraq. Patrick J. McDonnell. - Los Angeles Times, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 30, Family, 1522-3213; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: Confessions of a Saudi Militant in Iraq, Feb. 19, 2005; pp. A8-A9.
This article relates the story of a 20-year-old high school dropout from Saudi Arabia who participated in a December 24, 2004, truck bombing in the Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq. Ahmed Abdullah Abdul-Rahman Alshai survived the attack that killed 12 people and confessed to his role in a television interview aired by the Iraqi government. Alshai is now [Feb. 2005] in "Abu Ghraib, the notorious U.S. lockup west of Baghdad. He is one of more than 8,000 U.S. prisoners in Iraq dubbed security risks in a war that U.S. officials once dismissed as being waged by no more than 5,000 'dead-enders.'...He won't be getting out anytime soon." (LOS ANGLES TIMES)
1522-3213;
Iraq War (2003)--Prisoners and prisons
Jihad
Suicide bombings
AC1.S5
050