Interviews with Karim al-Mejjati and Participant in Abqaiq Refinery Attack
By Evan Kohlmann
Al-Qaida's Committee in the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia) has recently released the first new issue of its official magazine, Sawt al-Jihad ("Voice of Jihad"), in nearly two years. Among other articles, the magazine contains lengthy interviews with Badr al-Humaydi (one of the Al-Qaida operatives who participated in last year's terrorist attack on the Abqaiq oil refinery in eastern Saudi Arabia) and Karim al-Mejjati (a.k.a. Abu Elyas al-Maghrebi), a most wanted Moroccan Al-Qaida commander who was killed in a clash with Saudi security forces in April 2005. During the interview conducted shortly prior to his death, al-Mejjati discusses at great length his experiences fighting with mujahideen in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and salutes various military commanders from Afghanistan whom he credits as being his chief instructors--including Ibn Shaykh al-Liby, Abu Zubaydah al-Falastini, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and the current leader of Al-Qaida's ground forces in southern Afghanistan Abu Laith al-Liby.
Click to view Sawt al-Jihad #30 - "Interview with Badr al-Humaydi"
Click to view Sawt al-Jihad #30 - "Interview with Karim al-Mejjati"
See also:
- Al-Qaida in Saudi: "Bin Laden and the Oil Weapon"
- Al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia Issues Rules on Attacking Oil Facilities (February 2006)
- Al-Qaida claims Abqaiq (Buqayq) operation by "Brigade of Shaykh Usama Bin Laden" (February 2006)
- Al-Qaida names Abqaiq "martyrs" from the "Bin Laden Brigade" (February 2006)
- Al-Qaida statement on recent events in Saudi Arabia (July 2006)
- [NEFA Foundation]: "Al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia: 2002-2003"