Runaway terrorist shot dead in Taif

Yousef Abdullatif Shabab Al-Ghamdi

Monday, July 06, 2015

JEDDAH: A wanted terrorist was killed in a shootout with police on Saturday, the Ministry of Interior said.

In a statement posted online, the ministry said Yousef Abdullatif Shabab Al-Ghamdi was killed in his hide-out after he exchanged gunfire with security forces, rejecting a call for him to surrender.

Al-Ghamdi escaped a raid at a house in Taif on Friday, during which three of his colleagues were captured, police said.

Security forces reported finding flags of Daesh (Arabic acronym for the group calling itself Islamic State), as well as gun silencers and computers.

During Friday’s operation, Sgt. Awad Siraj Al-Maliki was killed in a shootout with terrorists.
Saudi Arabia has stepped up operations against terrorists and extremists after a series of attacks against security forces by Daesh members and two blasts that targeted Shiite mosques in the eastern region in May.

According to local media, security agencies have arrested 1,351 Daesh supporters in the past 246 days.
They belonged to 29 different nationalities and were arrested from various parts of the Kingdom. They included American, French and Chinese nationals.

Four security personnel were martyred and nine terrorists were killed during these operations, the report quoted its sources as saying.

Of the 1,351 Daesh supporters, 1,058 are Saudi nationals.

Most of them are children who got involved through correspondence with Daesh elements.

Some of them were arrested after they were monitored contacting Daesh through websites.

Among the foreigners who were found with alleged links to Daesh were 117 Yemenis. Sixty of them are Syrians, 23 Egyptians and 19 are Pakistanis.

There are also 11 Palestinians, nine with unknown nationality, eight Sudanese, eight Jordanians, five Indians, four Bangladeshis, four Bahrainis, three Ethiopians, three from Chad, two Iraqis, two Filipinos, two Afghans, two from Mali, one Libyan, one Malaysian, one Qatari, one Lebanese, one Nepali, one Somali, one Tajik and one Nigerian.

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