Al-Jama'a Al-Salafiya Al-Mujahida Claims Responsibility
for British Weapons Expert Death In Iraq

By Joel Leyden, Israel News Agency 24 September 2003

[IMRA: The Saudi Islamic clerics that Al-Jama'a Al-Salafiya Al-Mujahida have
links to are radicals and not part of the Saudi establishment.
Unfortunately, over the years the Saudis declined to act against them, thus
providing a hothouse for their development.]

An Israeli researcher has found the name of the terrorist group which
murdered Ian Rimell, a 53-year-old British bomb disposal expert in Iraq on
September 4.

Lt. Col. Yoni Halevi, who was performing private research for the Jerusalem
Center for Public Affairs, discovered Al-Jama'a Al-Salafiya Al-Mujahida
claim of responsibility for the murder on the official Web site Al-Jama'a
Al-Salafiya Al-Mujahida.
According to Halevi, Al-Jama'a Al-Salafiya Al-Mujahida, has links to Islamic
clerics in Saudi Arabia.

The married father-of-three was killed in a roadside ambush in northern Iraq
near the city of Mosul.

Rimell's local bodyguard was seriously injured when they were attacked on
Thursday afternoon, as they drove along a main road to the northern Iraqi
city.

TEXT:
http://www.salafyahmojaheda.50megs.com/baeaan8.htm

TRANSLATION: On the 3 of September a special group of the Al-Jama'a
Al-Salafiya Al-Mujahida chased the British expert who served as an officer
in the British army and was responsible for the detonation of weapons. The
group succeeded to kill him while he was in disguise.

http://www.saudiaffairs.net/webpage/issue07/article07r/issue07rt07.htm
The founders of Al-Jama'a Al-Salafiya Al-Mujahida interviewed to Al-Arabia
announcing the establishment of the organization.It was clearly understood
from their dialect that they are Saudis.

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