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| Saudi Arabia Names Suicide Compound Bombers |
| 2003-12-01 |
| Saudi Arabia said on Monday two Saudi nationals carried out the November 9 suicide bombing of a residential compound in Riyadh which killed at least 18 people. An Interior Ministry statement said the bombers, identified by DNA testing, were Ali bin Hamed al-Maabadi al-Harbi and Nasser bin Abdullah bin Nasser al-Sayyari. Both were wanted by authorities on security charges, it said. The statement read on state television gave the first detailed official account of the attack. It said the attackers drove up to the compound gates in a car, throwing hand grenades and shooting at the guards. Then a jeep, painted with the insignia of security forces and loaded with explosives, entered the compound. "Then it was blown up in a suicide operation," the statement said, adding the jeep had been rigged with 300 kg of explosives. Authorities also discovered a rest stop nearby which was used to prepare for the attack and where the car was painted. "Investigators have found out who is behind this operation and measures are still being taken," the statement added. "Security forces are still chasing the perpetrators and God willing they will be found and brought to justice." I see a lot of chasing and not a lot of catching. And nobody has gone to the block yet. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 If they turn up that easily, why don't you snag them when they're plotting the damned thing; you know when its a con-spir-a-cy? Oops, sorry, didn't mean to use that term, there are no c-words in Suadrabia. Was never in gestapo, grand mufti never meet with gesatapo. No no |
| Posted by: jon lemming 2003-12-1 5:11:55 PM |
| #2 .com, but that would seal Tony Blairs fate. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2003-12-1 2:31:45 PM |
| #1 The joke: foxes guarding the henhouse. What a joke Saudi Arabia is. Only it's not funny. It's just pathetic. [just dreaming aloud] On some future troop rotation from Iraq, as they get geared up up and doing it right, should be a particularly short cycle group with a particular skillset, heavy on the Spec Ops side. These people would be staged to Bahrain for apparent rotation out... but instead, they take the key points in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. They would be rather quickly reinforced with some heavy armor with strong air support assets. The ports, refineries, North-South coastal pipelines, and other facilities would be taken, such as Dhahran Air Base. Then the cordon should be pushed inland to a depth of approx 30-40km. And kept. For-fucking-ever. The funny thing about most "movements" is that they require so much cash. Makes one wonder how many are "true believers" and how many are mercs. I'd say that, once the cash is cut off and it was apparent that no more would be forthcoming, even with many billions in the bank, that the funding pipelines for the asshats like AlQ would substantially dry up in 90-120 days. Saudi Arabia owes hundred of billions in loans. No more would be forthcoming. When faced with the fact that the gig is up, the largesse of the "Princes" which fund the jihadis would disappear rather quickly. They're not stupid, just insane by Western standards. The Black Hats, busy lining their own nests in an effort to become as disgustingly wealthy as the despised Sunni Royals, wouldn't take up the slack. These guys expect phreakin' receipts from their Hezbollah gunmen. And, of course, they would get their own rotation... Same game. This time we hold the military points and the nuke facilities. The "pro-West" public can have their country back. We destroy the nuke shit - they don't need it. They prosper selling oil - in our new cartel. The Black Hats are either killed or relegated to twiddling religious bits, sans ALL power, as it should be. Plenty of gas for their Toyotas, but no military power to use against others. Pakistan implodes - no cash for jihad or madrassahs or other Izzoid idiocy. Syria sues for peace - or whatever. Who cares? No cash = no organzied anything. Let 'em rot or kill them all. Sudan gets turned into glass. Sorry, boyz, not enough boots to occupy you. We take Libya with a small rotation. Lybian sweet is the best stuff on the planet. We keep Muammar's kid for a pet. Kill the old man. Think Russia will object? When we can raise oil spot market prices to anyone we wish by 3x or 4x? Fat fucking chance. Foreign hard currency is what he wants - and he'd get it. If he didn't reform his piece of shit country and level out those empires within, we'd destroy his game - which is declining already due to lack of investment in his oil industry infrastructure - just like Iraq. If he cooperates, they'd truly prosper. Putty would put on knee pads for his next visit to Crawford - or be strung up from a Moscow lamppost by his own. Think Eeewww would have a fit? Yeah, so what's new? Such is life, eh? Rinse. Repeat. If we are going to be cursed and hated and reviled for being imperialists and all of the other demonstrably untrue things with which we have been charged ever since our rise from obscurity post-WW-I, we might as well get the goddamned benefits that accrue to such dastardly entities. The hysterical thing to me is that these people who scream at us constantly and make absurd charges are precisely the people who WOULD do those things if THEY had the power of the US. Fuck 'em. [/just dreaming aloud] |
| Posted by: .com 2003-12-1 11:45:52 AM |