Eleven Marines were injured by an explosion in a trash receptacle aboard the USS Saipan in the Persian Gulf, the Navy said Thursday. The explosion occurred late Wednesday in a sleeping area, piercing a bulkhead and injuring people in the adjacent compartment. The cause was being investigated.
One Marine was taken to an Army field hospital in Kuwait with a serious arm wound and was in stable condition, the Navy said. The rest were being treated aboard the ship, and the injuries were not life-threatening, according to the Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. The Marines are part of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and were deployed to the Gulf in support of the ongoing war on terrorism and the American-led war in Iraq. The Saipan, an amphibious assault ship, deployed from Norfolk Naval Station on Jan. 6.
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Dammit--hit "submit" before I added comments. It just sounds verrrrry suspicious that you have an exploding "trash receptacle" in a sleeping area... Another fraticide/fragging incident, I wonder?
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If I were the skipper, everyone named Mohamed would be a suspect.
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Are we sure somebody didn't throw away a souvenir from Iraq so he didn't get bagged with it? They're cracking down on that bigtime according to a friend of mine.
The Saudi government has arrested 149 Saudis believed to be part of an al Qaeda network plotting poison attacks in the kingdom, a senior Saudi intelligence official told ABCNEWS. The arrests were made over several days, with the last major arrests occurring about a week ago. A Saudi public statement alludes to the uncovering of a terrorist cell, but does not mention the 149 al Qaeda arrests. The government does not plan to make the fact of the arrests public, fearing that confidence inside Saudi Arabia would deteriorate.
I think my confidence level would increase if somebody told me they'd rounded up 149 krazed killers...
The al Qaeda network had been planning to initiate a series of major terrorist attacks, primarily in Riyadh, on the occasion of the war in Iraq. Saudi intelligence had a source in the group and the plans were frustrated, but the Saudi government was shocked by the discovery that the group had stockpiled poisons, C-4 explosives, hand grenades and small arms in preparation for their planned attacks. The source indicated that the al Qaeda group had been planning to poison water storage containers at public buildings. Initial interrogations have established links between members of the al Qaeda cells and bazaar merchants from the province of Qasim. Qasim is an area of Saudi Arabia that has traditionally been associated with anti-monarchy sentiment, and businessmen from there have been among the largest contributors to Osama bin Laden. Things seem to be heating up in the land of Saud.
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I guess that the time limit on protection money paid to OBL to go away and leave the Saudis alone has run out. It is show time for the govt.
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Islamic terrorists and the Saudi royal family are a mutual admiration society. One could not exist without the other so fat chance the Royal Wahabis will lift a finger to stamp out Al-Qaeda. They ARE Al-Qaeda! Follow the money...
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... the group had stockpiled poisons, C-4 explosives, hand grenades and small arms in preparation for their planned attacks.
Yes, but did they have a lair?
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Ned---this lends credence to the old phrase that sometimes you are your own worst enemy!
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The Saudi Interior Minister, Prince Nayef, has said that 19 Islamic militants being sought by the authorities are suspected members of Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. I'm shocked, shocked that they admitted this.
The group - all but two of them Saudis - had been planning to carry out attacks in the kingdom. Following a shoot-out with some of the men on Tuesday, the security services found a big arms cache in the house they had been using in the capital, Riyadh. Prince Nayef said the men - 17 Saudis, an Iraqi and a Yemeni - were known members of an al-Qaeda cell. He told a Saudi newspaper they were all young men who had received military training in Afghanistan. The Saudi media have shown pictures of the men and are making much of the huge cache of weapons and explosives found in their hide-out. In the past, officials referred to such people merely as "misguided youth" - and a spate of attacks on Westerners in the kingdom was officially blamed on expatriates involved in the illegal production of alcohol. The fabled "alk runners".
Now there is more openness. The authorities say they have arrested hundreds of al-Qaeda suspects since the 11 September 2001 attacks against the United States, and acknowledge that Bin Laden has sympathisers in the country. They have not said what targets the 19 men were planning to attack. But last week, the US State Department said it had intelligence reports warning of attacks against Americans in the Saudi kingdom.
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This update explains a lot: Suspected terrorists who had been planning attacks in Saudi Arabia targeted the royal family as well as American and British interests, and received orders directly from Osama bin Laden, a senior security official said Thursday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the prime targets were the defense minister, Prince Sultan, and his brother, the interior minister, Prince Nayef.
Planning a hit on royals will get you a lot of attention in Saudiland.
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Anybody know if OBL has issued a statement regarding U.S. forces pulling out of Saudi.That was one of his stated goals.
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a slight glow was noticed from the protein paste on the floor of his collapsed cave.
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Right, Steve. Saudi is by far the strangest piece of real estate on the earth (that I've lived in) The Magic Kingdom. I never met any expat involved in selling alcohol willing a Saudi neck massage. They'd just stop making it if a party got too out of hand or if they got dressed down by their boss. Bomb a car? Knew it was bogus.
I wonder if Atom Ant (aka, whatzisname, Adel Al-Jubeir, right?) will be on "Meet the Press" TV soon.
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