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Published Date: July 14, 2009 RIYADH: Sheikh Abdullah ibn Jebreen, a prominent Saudi cleric who praised Osama bin Laden and preached violence against Muslim Shiites, Christians and Jews, died yesterday aged 77, his official website said. "Our Sheikh, Imam and father Abdullah ibn Jebreen has passed to God's mercy," said the website. Ibn Jebreen shot to international fame when he praised Osama bin Laden in 2003 calling him a "warrior in the path of God" and wished him victory. Citing government and medical sources, the New York Times reported last month ibn Jebreen received police protection whilst at a hospital in Germany before his departure in June "because the cleric's diatribes are considered a crime in this country, where hate speech is illegal". Saudis shut foreign school RIYADH: The Saudi government closed an international school in Riyadh after 20 students were diagnosed with swine flu, the health ministry said yesterday. A health ministry official would not identify the school, only saying that it served people from an east Asian country. Riyadh has several schools serving the children of hundreds of thousands of workers from east Asia, mainly the Philippines and Indonesia. The school outbreak and 12 other newly diagnosed cases pushed the total for Saudi Arabia to 216, less than six weeks after the first case was detected. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
