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| 2004-05-03 |
| via Wash Times - EFL and Fair Use after the speculation comes some facts... maybe even most of the facts. Saudi militants kill 5 Westerners By Adnan Malik - AP Attackers sprayed gunfire inside a Saudi oil contractor’s office yesterday, killing at least five Westerners — including two Americans — and wounding at least 25 others. Police killed four gunmen in a shootout after a bloody car chase, during which the attackers dragged the naked body of one victim behind their getaway car. One of the attackers killed reportedly was on the Saudi kingdom’s list of most-wanted terrorists, many of whom are suspects in last year’s suicide attacks on foreign housing compounds in the capital, Riyadh. The attacks were blamed on al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden’s terror network. Three of the gunmen worked at the contractor’s office in the industrial city of Yanbu, 220 miles north of the Red Sea city of Jidda. They used their key cards to enter the building and sneak another attacker through an emergency gate, according to an Interior Ministry source quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency. ...much more at the link... Note: Originally, news reports confused the Aramco Yanbu Refinery with first Exxon-Mobile, then with SABIC. The Saudi Gov’t owns 70% of SABIC which contracts some of its secondary / downstream facilities to "affiliates." |
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| #3 Fox News - Islamist Attacks Spark Backlash in Arab Countries - ttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118817,00.html ". . . Likewise Jordanians expressed fear, denounced terrorism and rallied in support of their government after Jordanian state television aired a videotape last week of several several suspects admitting to planning a chemical attack that could have killed 80,000 people. In the face of such outrage, militants now appear to be distancing themselves from terrorism at home, recognizing it could cost them support. A man who identified himself as Musab al-Zarqawi, the alleged mastermind of the Jordan plot, denied that there were plans for a chemical bomb in a statement posted on a militant Islamist Web site. "The [allegation] that there was a chemical bomb to kill thousands of people is a mere lie. God knows, if we did possess it [a chemical bomb], we wouldn't hesitate one second to use it to hit Israeli cities..." Of course if they had a chemical bomb they would use it. And this, my friends, is why there is a War on Terror - or rather - a War on Radical Islamists. |
| Posted by: Jake 2004-05-03 11:38:28 AM |
| #2 Impossible, Gentle assured me that no Muslim could do something like this! |
| Posted by: AllahHateMe 2004-05-03 8:28:10 AM |
| #1 Wait a minute - one of the attackers was on the list of most wanted terrorist and 3 of the gunmen worked at the contractor's office then... hmmm. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-05-03 8:23:00 AM |