[LarryM]

I guess we're supposed to believe a Pakistani intelligence officer likely working for Al Quaeda?

[angkor]

"Muhaya had a coffee shop where residents of both sexes chatted over water pipes and watched foreign movies and other entertainment on a big screen television. It was located next to a pool where women swam in bikinis."

Oh, they are such degenerates.

Water pipes. Big screen TV. Bikinis!

Sodom and Gomorrah.

[steve-b]

KARACHI - The suicide bomb attack at the Muhaya residential compound in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh on November 9 in which at least 17 people were killed - most of them foreign Arabs - was neither an episode of global jihadi terrorism nor part of a conspiracy to destabilize the House of Saud.
A Pakistani undercover intelligence operator who recently returned from Riyadh told Asia Times Online that the attack was in fact the result of a deep divide within Saudi society between strict religious conservatives with little exposure to the outside world, and a more "liberal" element with the money and power to indulge in restricted activities.

It's traditional to insert some filler between mutually exclusive assertions.

Obviously, the "strict religious conservatives" are part of global jihadi terrorism (they're part of what goes on on this planet, and they are engaging in both jihad and terror), and they are attempting to destabilize the House of Saud by breaking the peace of its kingdom.

[Publius6961]

It was as a result of this anger that the conservatives decided to bomb the complex, according to the Pakistani intelligence agent.

So much for religion of peace and tolerance and it's a tiny minority of nuts bombing everything in sight on account of disrespect and overt imperialism blah blah blah...

I missed the part where the U.S. government is pressuring the Saudis to excercise restraint in seeking out the freeom fighters...

[fourdeuce82d]

There was an analagous situation in Dhahran back in the late 70s-early 80s when video cameras were fairly new- an ex-pat couple were singing w/other couples, and making videos, which were then passed around.

Local autthorities got hold of some copies...and were making ex-pat women undergo an examination by a (female) doctor before they could leave the country- seems one of the ladies had an identifiable butterfly tattoo in a "cheeky" location...