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Saudi envoy in London says Jews beat up his son

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's ambassador to London said in an interview published on Wednesday that a group of Jews had beaten his son and four friends with baseball bats and bottles on the streets of the British capital.
"Twenty Jews with baseball bats, bottles and Israeli flags (beat) my son Fares ... who came home suffering from bruising and injuries," envoy Ghazi Algosaibi told Asharq Al Awsat newspaper. He gave few details but said the attack took place last month, although he informed neither the Foreign Office in London nor Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry in Riyadh. The Saudi youths were all wearing Palestinian scarves having just taken part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration, said the ambassador.

"If Palestinians or Muslims severely beat the son of the Israeli ambassador to London, can you imagine what would happen?" asked Algosaibi, who stirred controversy in April when he wrote a poem in praise of Palestinian suicide bombers. Asked if he would encourage his son Fares to carry out a suicide bombing, or "martyrdom-attack", the ambassador told the London-based daily: "I would not oppose it but I would tell him it was his decision."

Algosaibi added that his son and friends were boycotting US products in protest at Washington's support for Israel. "But personally I have my own point of view on this. Boycotting (US goods) could harm us more than it serves our interests," he said. His poem appeared in the April 13 edition of the Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily Al Hayat, hailing Palestinian suicide bombers as "martyrs" and singling out for praise Ayat Al Akhrass, an 18-year-old girl who blew herself up outside a west Jerusalem supermarket, killing two Israelis, on March 29.

"Every person has the right to defend his homeland by all means and anyone who does that and dies for the cause is a martyr," the envoy told Asharq Al Awsat. - AFP

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