[THEPENINSULAQATAR] A Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
n court has sentenced three men to death and tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
two others for up to 17 years for their part in a series of krazed killer attacks including the deadly bombing of a foreign housing compound in 2003, state news agency SPA reported.
SPA said that, among other charges, a man identified by the court as "suspect number one" was convicted of involvement in the bombing of the Al Muhaya compound, where expatriates lived, in the capital Riyadh, one of a series of Al Qaeda attacks in the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia faced a krazed killer insurgency from 2003 to 2006 in which al Qaeda targeted residential compounds for foreign workers and Saudi government facilities, killing dozens of people.
The kingdom responded by arresting thousands of suspected snuffies and launching a media campaign to discredit their ideology with the backing of influential holy mans and tribal leaders.
In the 2003 attack, suspected al Qaeda jacket wallahs posing as Saudi police blew up their explosives-laden car in a Riyadh compound housing mostly Arab foreigners, killing 11 people and wounding 122, including 36 children.
The charges in the case also included belonging to an Al Qaeda-linked cell, firing on coppers, loading cars with explosives to use in "terrorist" attacks and possessing weapons including rocket-propelled grenades and SAM-7 rockets, SPA reported late on Thursday.