If (if) there is a Saudi connection, and...
if (if) the issues revolves around the Islamic doctrinal mandate to free Muslims from disbeliever confinement,
we may have a ratcheting up of risk to corrections, police and confinement personnel.
Lets see where this investigation goes
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Colorado prison chief killing: Saudi national's case considered
By Ashley Fantz and Jim Spellman, CNN
updated 3:52 PM EDT, Thu March 21, 2013
Who killed Colorado prison head and why?
El Paso County, Colorado (CNN) -- Tom Clements oversaw a state prison system that housed thousands of convicted criminals, yet Colorado investigators are looking closely at one case as they try to determine who gunned him down at his home this week.
That case, a top Colorado law enforcement official told CNN, involves Homaidan al-Turki, a Saudi national who was convicted of sexually assaulting his housemaid at his Aurora, Colorado, home seven years ago. Earlier this month, Clements denied al-Turki's request to serve out the remainder of his Colorado prison sentence in Saudi Arabia, records show.
"There has been, you know, one case in specific that has been mentioned, certainly that the media has mentioned, with al-Turki, who was denied transfer back to Saudi Arabia. And certainly that has been in the media in the last 24 hours," El Paso County Undersheriff Paula Presley told CNN. She was referring to reports in both The Denver Post and CNN affiliate the Denver Channel.
Investigators, she said, are still trying to determine whether "there may have been some motivation or legitimate threat" related to al-Turki's case, adding that "we have not identified that specifically as a threat."
"The investigation is wide open," she added.
Al-Turki, now at the Limon Correctional Facility, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison after being convicted on a dozen counts of sexual contact, theft, extortion and false imprisonment in 2006, a state document shows. Prosecutors said he enslaved his Indonesian maid for several years.
His case made waves in the Denver area and in his home country. Saudi Arabia posted his bail and complained about the trial, according to The Denver Post.
At the request of the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers traveled to Riyadh in 2006 to meet with King Abdullah, other Saudi officials and the al-Turki family to discuss the case.
Clements explained in a March 11 letter to al-Turki that he was turning down his transfer request because al-Turki had refused to go through sex offender treatment, as required by law.
"To date you have reportedly declined due to religious reasons/conflicts with your Islamic faith," Clements wrote.
The letter also notes that on February 25, 2011, al-Turki's sentence was reduced to 6 years to life.
CNN has not received a response to its requests for comment from al-Turki's lawyers.
Searching for a mystery car
Investigators say they know very little about who might have walked up to the door of Tom Clements' rural Monument home on Tuesday night, and opened fire on the prison chief when he answered the door.
Asked Thursday whether Clements' killing might have been a professional hit, Presley replied, "We don't have any specific information that would lead us to that."
"We are looking at all potential tips, leads, threats that Mr. Clements may have had from anybody in that prison system," she said.
The sheriff's office major crimes unit says it has received over 100 solid tips.
As a precaution, security has been beefed up at the governor's office and other locations statewide.
One of the few clues that investigators have is the description of a vehicle seen in Clements' neighborhood. Some witnesses say they saw a man driving a vehicle -- possibly a Lincoln Continental or a two-door Cadillac -- away from the neighborhood a short time after the shooting .
Other witnesses reported seeing a black, boxy-shaped vehicle with its engine running but no one inside on Clements' street around the time of the shooting.
Read: Searching for a car in prison chief's killing
A public servant
Clements' death shook Gov. John Hickenlooper, who was emotional at a press conference Wednesday.
He repeatedly praised the corrections chief, calling Clements a "dedicated, committed, funny, caring expert" who tried to ensure that prisoners had adequate support before their release.
"Tom Clements was someone who worked in a cold, dark world with a remarkably open and generous heart," Hickenlooper said.
Hickenlooper appointed Clements as the chief of the state's prison system in January 2011, according to Clements' online state biography. Before that Clements worked for 31 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, where since October 2007 he had been director of adult institutions for the department, overseeing 21 adult prisons, the biography says.
Hickenlooper, who signed landmark gun control bills Wednesday, said Clements was "supportive but not particularly active" in the gun control measures, and there is no indication whether the new laws and his death are related.
CNN's Jim Spellman reported from Colorado. Casey Wian and Paul Vercammen contributed to this report. Ashley Fantz wrote the story in Atlanta.
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