From Jihad Unspun. They've been pretty boring lately, but this one's back in their old style...
By Dr. Abu Ziyaad (UK)
The deadly bomb attacks that took place in the surrounds of the diplomatic quarters (Al-Mujammah district) in Riyadh and the subsequent âmedia spinâ (lie) emanating from the Saudi authority regards Muslim women and children being the target of operations whilst the men-folk were away observing their Ramadan rites during the night (Taraawih prayers) represents the latest battle between the Saudi Arabian monarchy and its armed opponents in a deadly war to eliminate the other.
| "Y'see, it's all lies..." |
Just a year ago, the Riyadh government was still insisting — on the record — there was no al-Qaida presence in the country. The truth is, off course, quite different, as we have seen. Dozens of plots have been allegedly foiled and scores of suspected members of the underground opposition have been rounded up over the past months. The attacks on Saturday night, was the third such attack in the past 6 months.
| Thought this was the second? Or is he counting the Mecca shootout the other day? |
The reports that emanated from the press agencies (from eyewitness sources), Saudi authorities and the U.S. State Department, in the early hours after the Riyadh bombings carried multiple contradictions.
| Ahah! contradictions! Infallible indications of the existence of a deep-laid plot™, an insidious conspiracy™, no less... |
- The First Contradiction:
The State Department said Saturday that three residential compounds housing Westerners in the Saudi capital were hit by explosions and gunfire. "We have initial reports that there were explosions and gunfire at three compounds in Riyadh that house Westerners," State Department spokeswoman Amanda Batt said. We can see from this statement, that all the compounds attacked according to the U.S. intelligence sources contained westerners and were western compounds. This statement was subsequently corrected, and modified later on by the U.S. State Department, no doubt after consultation with the CIA. It seems surprising that the U.S. closed their embassy a day before the Riyadh attacks based on high level intelligence, but that same quality intelligence falsely related information to them about what targets had actually been hit!
Then Early Sunday morning, A SAUDI official, denied U.S. claims and said that only one residential compound in Riyadh was bombed Saturday night. "There may have been two or three blasts in the al-Muhaya compound, but there were no explosions in three (different) compounds," the official said. So clear contradiction here between early U.S. reports which declared Western compounds to have been attacked and subsequent Saudi reports declaring that no-Western compounds had been attacked.
| And everyone knows that initial reports, when the smoke and confusion are at their greatest, are the most reliable. Just think of the 9-11 attacks, when there were actually 26,000 killed, and not only were there four — make that five, possibly six — planes full of murderers, but there was also a car bomb outside the State Department. |
- The Second Contradiction:
Al-Arabiya Satellite (partly Saudi owned) reported, again, soon after the attacks that the director of the al-Muhaya compound, Hanady al-Ghandakli said: that she heard one large explosion, no sound of any gunfire, and definitely no attackers breaking into the compound. Whereas, the Saudi version of events goes like this: âJust before the midnight blasts, an unknown number of attackers broke into the upscale compoundâ, a Saudi official said, âand gunfire was heard. It was unclear if three individual bombs had detonated or whether it was one that set off multiple explosionsâ. This contradiction begs the question who is telling the truth? You might expect that the director of the compound (Hanadi al-Ghandakli) to have a better idea of events on the ground than an unknown Saudi official.
| That's assuming he was there, of course, and if he was close enough to hear the gunfire... |
- The Third Contradiction:
The Saudi authority described the explosions taking place in the Muhaya compound. They said that the attackers exchanged fire with the security guards and there were apparently three explosions. Other eye witness reports (from press agencies) suggested a firefight taking place lasting over 1.5 hours between the Mujahideen and the al-Muhaya compound security guards. It begs the question âwhat kind of firefight was thisâ? How can nominal security guards posted at the Muhaya compound exchange gunfire for 1.5 hours with the Mujahideen in the nearby streets? This statement by the Saudi authority of a firefight and subsequent reports from eyewitnesses can only indicate one thing, that such a firefight must have taken place around high level security buildings or military barracks, possibly near the foreign embassies within the diplomatic quarter. We know that almost all the foreign embassies in Riyadh — including the U.S. Embassy — and most diplomats' homes are inside the diplomatic quarter, an isolated neighborhood whose entrances are highly guarded. One eyewitness report on CNN quoted an unnamed Western diplomat saying he received a call from a friend who reported seeing smoke rising from a building on the other side of the diplomatic quarter near an area where the palaces of the royal family's senior princes are located. There was no further information on the report.
| "Yep. Me'n Myrtle, we heard the gunfire from al-Muhaya, so we decided we'd go out back and fire up the barbeque. We know some of those security guards would be hungry..." |
All this leads one to the conclusion that the Mujahideen did attack a number of Western compounds in the diplomatic quarters, but that the subsequent street fighting and explosions that ensued affected nearby al-Muhaya compound. The Muslims who were shown on television to have been hurt or killed were as a result of being caught in the subsequent explosions and not the target of the Mujahideen themselves.
| So it must have been the Good Guys who bumped them off, probably the Mossad... |
Allah only knows how heavy the casualties were in the western compounds that were actually targeted. Clandestine reports indicate that between 70 to 80 U.S. nationals were killed in the western compounds, along with their families.
| "They got me, Myrtle! I'm a goner!" |
It is clear the Saudi authority lied about what actually happened (just like they lied about the sighting of the Moon for this years Ramadan festivities). They spun the news story so that it looked as if most of the casualties were Arab Muslims (women and children), hoping to create an adverse reaction across the region for its internal opposition, in the same way the May bombings were spun in such a way that led to some increased support for the ailing Saudi Regime. This support was then manipulated by the authorities to great affect, leading to arrests, detentions and killings of many opposition groups and members within the Kingdom. |