At least 6 Westerners killed in Saudi Yanbu Oil Terminal Compound

debka.com ^ | 4/30/04 | DebkaFile

[kinghorse]

Saudi interior ministry reports shooting-car bomb attack Saturday on unidentified compound in Red Sea port of Yanbu.

Unconfirmed details of at least 6 Westerners killed in six-hour attacks – 2 Britons, 1 American, 1 Australian and possibly 1 Italian – one outside a hotel. British chairman of local oil company reports 17 killed when gunmen drove from industrial area to downtown firing all the way.

DEBKAfile adds: Still not clear if attack targeted Yanbu’s big oil terminal, main Saudi oil export outlet to the West. If so, it would be first time Saudi oil resources were struck by terrorists exactly one week after al Qaeda suicides struck southern Iraqi oil terminal off Basra shore.

[kinghorse]

This angers me.

[BlackVeil]

It is very bad news - an important story, it should be in "breaking".

[cake_crumb]

Debka jokes aside, this story is true as far as Saudi officials can confirm. What's sketchy is the number of Western casualties. Two blew themselves up along wiht their car bomb, security forces shot and killed one, and injured and arrested another attacker.

Prayers for the families.

[cake_crumb]

Yes it SHOULD be in breaking if it hasn't been posted before.

[JustAnAmerican]

Just another reason among many to start drilling in Alaska and anywhere else that is free of foreign influence. If the Saudi's get hit hard(And they will it's just a matter of time), expect oil prices to hit the $10.00 a gallon mark in short order.

And when that happens I would not want to be one of the Dims that voted not to drill in Alaska.

[Lijahsbubbe]

US issues alert to Americans in Saudi Arabia (heard on radio)

[PA Engineer]

This was a direct attack on Aramco and their oil services contractors. I did design work at Yambu and stayed at the contractor vacilites for a couple of weeks many years ago. This is very sad.

[cake_crumb]

"US issues alert to Americans in Saudi Arabia (heard on radio)"

Yep. And the area's cordoned off now.

[cake_crumb]

My father, who works for Aramco, just got out of Saudi last year.

[The Raven]

They don't have to worry about Patriot acts in Saudi Arabia....and they still can't find them

[PA Engineer]

Did he give you any idea what the situation was like in the Eastern Province?

[FreedomPoster]

>>and they still can't find them

Look in any and all of the local mosques.

[bert]

Yanbu is on the Red Sea, and is the twin of Jubail on the Gulf in that it is a petrochemical manufacturing facility. There is a pipeline from Eastern Provence to a terminal at Yanbu.

The primary facility for refining and shipping is in the Gulf at Ras Tanura. IE Cape Tanura.

The threat to the French and the Germans is Bashra..... a future Yanbu/Jubail. When these 3 petrochemical facilities get to their potential the chemical industries in Europe will be obliterated.

Saudi Arabian Bechtel acting as pretty much an agency of the Saudi Governmant as the Royal Saudi Commission for Jubail and Yanbu did the planning and administration of design and construction. Look for the same in Iraq, especially in Bashra very soon.

[cake_crumb]

He gave me first hand reports of what the situation was like all over Saudi. For about a year before the first attack in Riyadh, gangs of young Saudi men were going around LOOKING for Anglos and demanding to know who's SIDE they were on.

Dad spent a total of 7 years in the military, and is fond of taking up-close, personal photos of angry alligators when he's at hime. He lived in Saudi for 18-20 years. During the Gulf war, he stood outside, photographing Scud missiles as they rained down. That is the first time I've ever known him to ever be in fear for his life. Through him, I knew Saudi was about to explode long before State got around to issuing it's first warning. Dad is now in Korea.

[cake_crumb]

Clarification (undercaffeinated here) The gangs of young men harrassing Westerners was the first time I've ever known him to be in fear of his life...when the Scuds were falling, he figured since he could never outrun them, there wasn't any sense being scared, so he took pictures. I have some of them around here somewhere.

[PA Engineer]

I know. I was a sub for Aramco PD&C and liason to Bechtel. This really sickens me.

[bert]

Aramco was one of my best customers. Ditto Saudi Arabian Bechtel.

[maestro]

A new Saudi sport..........

and,......gas prices going up to $10.00 a gallon.

(Support your local mosque,.....buy more gas.)

/sarcasm

[PA Engineer]

Shame on you. You left out Halliburton and Brown & Root. ;-)

[Bobby777]

these barbarians are responsible for more death on a daily basis than can be imagined ... some "culture" ...