In response to televised remarks by the four captured terrorists who had planned to attack petroleum facilities in the Saudi city of Qiq that they had been waiting for a fatwa from Osama bin Laden to approve the operation, senior Saudi cleric Sheikh Abd Al-Muhsin Al-'Obikan, a moderate, said that bin Laden had no religious legal authority to issue fatwas.
Al-'Obikan said that bin Laden had attended a seminary that did not specialize in Islamic religious law sciences, and that he did not have enough knowledge to serve as a mufti in the Islamic world.
Source: Al-Watan, Saudi Arabia, May 16, 2007
--------------------------I tried to verify this article in Al-Watan, but I didn't find it. Even when I looked at yesterday's edition....but I did see an article about famous left-handed people.
For more information on Sheikh Al-'Obikan, check out this Asharq Alawsat interview from 2005.
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