Posted on 05/29/2004 8:05:18 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Dead Briton dragged through streets after Saudi attack: reports
Sat May 29, 7:41 PM ET
LONDON (AFP) - Britain's newspapers said that the body of a British national feared killed in attacks by alleged Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen in eastern Saudi Arabia was dragged for over a mile (1.6 kilometres) behind a car.
According to the Mail on Sunday and The Observer, a British oil company executive was definitely among the victims of the attack at a compound in the Saudi oil city of Al-Khobar on Saturday.
Security forces found his body a mile away from the residential area where he was killed in front of his work colleagues, the newspaper said.
The assailants, suspected Islamic militants, led attacks against two oil facilities in Al-Khobar, then took an unknown number of civilians hostage at a nearby housing complex.
At least 11 people were reported killed so far in the violence, but numbers were expected to rise as Saudi security forces besieged the assailants, who were holed up in a building with the hostages.
One American was confirmed dead among at least four Westerners reported killed.
Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz said about 10 Saudis and foreigners were killed. He put at "four or five" the number of attackers "who have taken refuge in the compound where they are besieged."
The suspected Islamist extremists later released eight of their captives, who reported that more than 50 people were still being held.
Shortly afterwards gunfire could be heard from the hostage drama scene.
By clinging to such mindless euphemisms, these journalists are holding onto a piece of their ideology, political correctness, which will reassure to themselves and their fellow travelers that they are still "enlightened" beings.
A sad way to prop up their ego.
The US culture--in Media and in Hollywood--glorifies and excuses the behavior of bullies.
Rich Tycoons, Islamists, Mafiosi, Serial-Killers, Territorial Drug-Bosses,,,---they are all glorified and admired in the American culture.
Unleash the SAS on Saudi!
OK, lessee here...gimme a minute....still thinking...Eureka! I found it!
They all like to be in the street!
Yeah, that's the ticket!!
See, Mr. Bobby777 - there's no connection at all to religion in any of this.
So there.
Hey! It's the ONLY religion on Earth that kills in the name of their god!!!
How true that they aren't militants. The modern history of any Arabic army is pitiful. They can only fight as terrorists hiding behind their women and children. They depend on the Western media to hi-light the one, two, four, etc. Westerners that they kill while not reporting terrorist loses. And for some reason, the Western media play right along with them.
yes, I believe it's going to come to that ... how comforting that Dr. Khan sold nuclear secrets from Pakistan to Libya, North Korea and Iran ... and now, Saudi Arabia wants nuclear technology ...
oh yeah, this is not going to have a good ending ... what insanity these clowns bring to everyday life ...
Foxnews reporting the Saudis attacked and freed the American hostages?
Isn't it simply amazing what sorts of things bring a smile to that face? (sigh)
I've had it up to my eyebrows with having islam referred to as a "religion", thereby putting in on par with great creeds like Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, etc.
The damned thing is nothing more that an Insane Death Cult; always has been, and always will be.
Just because it's huge doesn't confer any nobler status upon it - it's still just a bloody cult, and needs eradication now more than any other time in history.
In my meek, humble opinion, of course.
Stinking murderous sandmaggots.
Save yourself England!
just wait until they get nuclear weapons ... or they (eventually) kill Musharraf and take over Pakistan's nuclear arsenal ... we ain't seen nothin' yet ...
mad mo has created a group of people that will cut heads off to get to 'heaven' ... there are no good solutions ... first thing is we'll have to kick them out of the U.S.A. ... lest our land become a sewer rat hole like these others they dominate in ...
good grief ... the CIA, Mossad or MI6 should have killed Dr. Khan as he was giving away those secrets ... when a rogue scientist sets out to give out technology that can bring the whole world to World War III, we have no choice but to have our intelligence groups take them 'out' ...
Could somebody, explain to me the logic
behind building a 'resort' in the
middle of a death camp.
Those Pagan "religions" have now been replaced with EnvironMentalism which is now hooked up with GovernMentalism in this country!!! The new "Death to America" cult that violates the "separation of church and state!!!"
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