Another thought Mitchell looked drugged or was suffering from the effects of extreme fatigue. He was a jovial man about town, with fingers in a lot of pies but always good for a laugh,' said one. 'His words made no sense, especially saying he was commanded to carry out the attack. He would have known that, under Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islamic law, convicted murderers are beheaded, usually in public, to deter others. The 46-year-old also used street maps to show the location of the victim's houses and the exact sites of the blasts. Mitchell said he had been ordered to use a remote control to carry out the bombing, but would not say who gave the instructions or why. Looking dazed and frightened, the trio sat separately behind a desk and used a pointer stick to show how they carried out the attacks. They were about to admit killing Rodway and blowing up another car in which three more Britons and an Irish woman were injured.īut to observers, something appeared odd. Minutes earlier, Mitchell had arrived under heavy armed guard at the studios of Saudi national television in downtown Riyadh with Canadian William Sampson and Belgian Raaf Schifte.
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