Saudi Gazette runs an article that vastly complicates the story that’s been told so far about Commission members chasing a couple at high speed ending in a crash killing the couple.
The fact that the woman involved was known by ten different names by the ten contacts found on her cell phone is also rather peculiar.
JEDDAH – A new twist in last week’s road-collision death of a man and an unrelated woman in his car may exonerate members of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice who were suspected to have chased the vehicle.
Al-Watan Arabic daily cited an unidentified senior Commission officer as saying that two young men who had tipped off the police and the Commission had chased the car for about 35 kilometers until tragedy struck: the fleeing car took a turn into oncoming traffic on the Tabuk-Madina Road and burst into flames on smashing into a speeding lorry. Both the occupants of the car died on the spot. The truck driver escaped uninjured.
The Commission source told Al-Watan that investigators were looking into whether the two young men who had tipped off the police knew the young man with the woman and had a motive.
The new turn of events contradict earlier reports implicating two Commission men in an SUV who allegedly tailgated the car.
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March:22:2008 - 09:41
This piece was poorly written leading one to question the truthfulness of it. I couldn’t focus while I was reading it.
Ten different names with ten different people that would be possible but I am sure one is bound to forget their name under such circumstances. I think one would use a few names but 10? I doubt it.
March:22:2008 - 09:41
I agree with Sparky. The two mysterious informers, 10 names, *innocent* religious police who just happened to be cruising near a girl’s school–seems like the Commission is trying too hard to come up with a cover story.
March:22:2008 - 09:41
I fail to see how this report exonerates the Commission. Ok it adds a couple of new twists and a couple of new suspects for foul play, but the Commission still made the mistake of beginig the high speed chase.
March:22:2008 - 09:41
I don’t think there’s any exoneration here–at least I don’t intend it! The details (if true) in this article do complicate the story, however.