Five Westerners killed in Saudi attack

China View ^ | 01 May 2004

[MegaSilver]

RIYADH, May 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Two Americans, two Britons and an Australian were killed in an attack on an engineering firm in the Saudi Red Sea port of Yanbu on Saturday, security sources said.

According to the sources, all the five Western engineers worked for ABB Lummus, a subsidiary of Swiss-Swedish engineering and oil services giant ABB.

The Saudi Interior Ministry earlier said in a statement that four men entered the headquarters of a Saudi contractor in Yanbu Saturday morning and fired at random at Saudis and foreigners.

"There were a number of deaths and injuries among Saudis and foreigners," it added.

Saudi security forces chased the gunmen who took refuge in residential areas and hijacked some cars. Three of them were killed and a fourth was wounded, the statement said.

It was the first such attack on a Western oil facility in Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter.

Yanbu, about 250 km north of Jeddah, is home to much of the kingdom's oil refining and petrochemicals industries together with nearby Jubail.

[MegaSilver]

Saudi Arabia is NOT our friend.

Mecca must go.

[exnavy]

muslim must be eradicated.

[ThreePuttinDude]

It's rather humorous, when I said that same thing
my post was pulled....you lucky poster you.

[truth_seeker]

"The Saudi Interior Ministry earlier said in a statement that four men entered the headquarters of a Saudi contractor in Yanbu Saturday morning and fired at random at Saudis and foreigners."

I used to work for Fluor.

A few weeks ago I talked with a current employee. I asked him about the safety of employees, in Iraq.

He brushed it off, as not a big thing.

I differ. I suspect it is increasingly difficult to get people to go, and that pay packages have grown bigger.

If the radicals will kill ANYBODY in the engineering office, they will eventually kill everybody that can keep the oil (read money) flowing.

[exnavy]

i've had my comments like that pulled as well.

[EGPWS]

muslim must be eradicated.

Now where in this article was it stated that Muslims had anything to do with this? /sarcasm