" Nayef " the Minister of Interior Covers up his Failure Through

Date: 15 / 01 / 2001

No. : 102 / H / 2001

Misleading Statements.

An Urgent Appeal to Save the Detainees

The Saudi Okaz newspaper quoted the Minister of Interior (Nayef bin Abdul Aziz) as saying that the Saudi regime has arrested some people due to their connection of al-Khobar bombing in 1996, then he added, " One day, we will announce the names of individuals who carried out the bombing. ", and added , " We could not indicate the person or the group behind the attack unless we receive complete information.

The Minister confirmed that there was a connection between the bombing and the detained citizen (Hani Abdul Rahim al-Sayegh) who was deported from U.S. to Saudi Arabia.

Nayef has been affected of disaster and defeat shook his credibility and post among the Royal family which did not trust of his ability to run the affairs of the Ministry. He tried to find some ways to avoid the crisis of knowing the real executers of the security events.

He could avoid the Americans and their claims to find the executers of Olyah bombing on 12/11/1995 in Riyadh , for that he fabricated many charges for a lot of citizens. In that time, a lot of citizens were arrested and forced to sign confessions that they took part in the bombing, the thing which makes one of those detainees astonished when he heard about the beheading of four citizens who accused of planning the bombing because he imagine that he would behead due to the confession that he was forced to sign it which indicated that he was one of the executers. After that the Regime chose four youths and claimed that they were the real executers: 

1- The martyr Riyadh Ishaq al-Hajiri, 24 years, from al-Madina al-Munawarrah.

2- The martyr Abdul Aziz Fahed Naser al-Mo’them, 24 years, from al-Kharaj.

3- The martyr Mosleh Ali `Ayez al-Shimrani, 28 years, from Riyadh.

4- The martyr Khalid Ahmad Ibrahim al-Sa`id, 24 years, from Riyadh. 

The Abovementioned martyrs were beheaded in 1417 A.H.

The Saudi regime chose them because in order to get rid of them as opponents and to close the file of that event.

We stated in previous statements that the events of Olayah and al-Khobar were as a result of the struggle between the Regime’s wings and the last bombings may be as a result of the struggle between the foreign companies in Saudi Arabia.

For instance, the Saudi authorities arrested the American citizen Mickael Sedlak on suspicion of involvement in the bombings. It is worth to note that the latter worked for " Vinell corp., a Fair fax – based defense firm that works with the U.S. Army in Riyadh to train the Saudi National Guard.

However, we refuse the silly style of conviction the offenders when they were denied of fair trial and banned access to lawyers. All these things are canceled and replaced by cameras of the General Investigations (al-Mabahith al-`Amma) when they show the offender testifying of confession which was prepared previously under coercion or torture or narcotic , after that the film is broadcasted through television.

These measures confirm the base and the barbarism of the security body.

They also confirm the weak power and the dependence of the Saudi judiciary which became a part of the General Investigations. In this case, the offender has no safeguards of a fair trial .

The Saudi citizens and the Islamic opponents become as victims of the Regime’s wings struggle and the struggle of the foreign intelligence agencies in Saudi Arabia which work under the cover of foreign firms.

They became as victims of unfair of justice system which lacks of Islamic and international standards.

Concern of al-Khobar bombing, the Saudi regime and the Ministry of Interior , particularly Nayef bin Abdul Aziz are still jumbling to find outlet of their confusion.

In the beginning al-Mabahith al-`Amma arrested aimlessly hundreds of citizens and political opponents, many houses have been raided, families were frightened and the government terrorism spread all over the towns and the villages of the country.

The Regime used all most barbaric methods of torture against the detainees which resulted death of two youths (Mohammad al-Hayek and Maithem al-Bahar) and caused unbroken handicaps for scores of detainees who were released later or who are still held in custody.

The Regime followed the same style with detainees as which it used with former detainees accused of Olayah bombing.

It interrogated some of the detainees , forced them to sign false confessions and recorded their confessions on a video tape alleged that they were responsible of al-Khobar bombing. Some of those detainees who were released later reported our committee the cruel practices that they were subjected through their detention which show that the Saudi regime adopts a plot against some innocent people of Arabian Peninsula.

The Ministry of Interior was attacked by a failure because of the confused statements which showed it confusion. From one hand, the Interior Minister tried to close the file of al-Khobar case which put his ministry on a dangerous turning point which aroused questions about the ability of the Ministry to preserve the stability and security of the country.

From the other hand, he faces the American pressure to find the real executors of the bombing.

The first statement of Nayef after the blast said, " We will announce the findings and we do not want to be in a hurry to announce the conclusions of the findings until we are sure of minor issues and details."

With another press conference after that statement he said, " The authorities in the Kingdom and its security staffs just know the facts with the complete details about the blast."

But he who knows the complete details as he claimed, how does he still search the details?

Then he stated another statement which was characterized by recantation of what stated previously, he said, " The Kingdom does not accuse anyone but in the same time does not exculpate anyone due to the lack of evidences and numbers. "

It is clear that Nayef did not know anything of the details and he put all the world at the spot of conviction when he said , " We does not exculpate anyone "

This saying is contrary to the Islamic and the mental principle which considers the criminal innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial.

There was another statement for the minister of interior Nayef issued after several weeks of his statement tried to recover the self-confidence, he said , "We discovered a lot of facts about al-Khobar bombing during the first hours after the event."While he said previously that they had no evidences and numbers.

In 1997 Nayef stated that there was no foreign involvement but in 1999 he said that the Saudi authorities could not dogmatize of foreign part involving in the blast.

The accusing of Hani Abdul Rahim al-Sayegh and other citizens of their responsibility of carrying out of al-Khobar bombing was a comedy fabricated by the Regime to avoid the impasse and failure and to deflect the consideration towards the security events which burden the Saudi regime with crisis that brought down the saying of " The country is enjoying of security and stability".

The Canadian authorities deported the citizen Hani Abdul Rahim al-Sayegh to U.S. with

the file of al-Khobar case which was prepared by the Saudi regime and contained of false evidences alleged his connection of al-Khobar bombing . After studying the case by American judiciary, it announced that there was no evidence against him, and as a requital to the right of treason and the Saudi loyalty towards U.S, the American authorities extradited Hani al-Sayegh to Saudi regime throwing the slogans of democracy and human rights aside.

If there was evidence confirmed the involvement of Hani al-Sayegh in the bombing, does U.S. extradite him to Saudi regime?

We renew our refusal that our people are the victims of the Saudi tyranny and failure, and the struggle between the Regime’s wings on one hand and their western masters from the other hand.

We call upon anyone who has the ability and effect to exert pressure on Saudi regime to release the scores of detainees who were the victims of Saudi tyranny and arbitrariness.