Saudi Medical Student Was Mess Tent Suicide Bomber in Iraq - educated hard-line Saudi society causing terrorisms against Americans
Sonia Chopra, Special Correspondent
January 04, 2004

In nine eleven terrorism, it was mostly Saudi educated youth that caused terrorism in America, The suicide bomber who killed 22 people when he blew himself up in a US army mess tent the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, was a Saudi medical student, an Arab newspaper reported today. 

Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat identified him as 20-year-old Ahmed al-Ghamdi. The friends said members of an Iraqi resistance group contacted al-Ghamdi’s father to tell him his son was the suicide bomber who carried out the December 21 attack, the deadliest on an American installation in Iraq.

Ansar al-Sunnah an Iraqi militant group claimed the responsibilities. According to the father of Ahmed al-Ghamdi, he went to Iraq to fight the Americans. The militant group informed his father that he was the December 21 suicide bomber. 

While United States maintains normal friendly if not closer relationship with the Saudi Government, it is obvious that there is something happening in that society that makes so many people available to commit suicide to create terror in and against America.

It may be time for America to look into the causes that is creating that amount of dissentient in a country that is officially an ally and one of the largest suppliers of crude oil to America. Some experts say, the root cause is embedded deep in the Saudi society. America’s especially George Bush’s good relationship with the Saudi family may be backfiring in this case. It is possible that the Saudi Royal Family is perceived as someone hijacking the country with the help of Americans. If that is the case America may have found the root cause of hatred from common Saudi people. 

The fact that such a large number of people in Saudi educated society is ready to commit suicide for terrorizing Americans, shows that America needs to address this right at its heart. Osama Bin Laden is also from Saudi Arabia.

It may be that America’s best interest will be served if democracy is first implemented in Saudi Arabia. As President Bush said a few days back, democracies do not wage war against other countries, democracy in Saudi Arabia may solve the problem.

The Saudi Royal family still can be there like the Royals of United Kingdom where the power mainly stays with an elected Prime Minister.