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Chronology of Attacks on Westerners in Saudi Arabia (May 31, 2004 )
Reuters ^ | Mon May 31, 2004 08:50 AM ET | Reuters staff

Posted on 05/31/2004 5:58:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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Chronology of Attacks on Westerners in Saudi Arabia
Mon May 31, 2004 08:50 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Suspected al Qaeda militants killed 22 civilians in Saudi Arabia at the weekend. Here is a short chronology of major attacks on Westerners in Saudi Arabia since 1995.

Nov 13, 1995 - Five Americans and two Indians killed and 60 people wounded in an explosion in a car park near a U.S.-run military training center in Riyadh.

June 25, 1996 - Bomb in fuel truck kills 19 American soldiers and wounds nearly 400 people at U.S. military housing complex in eastern city of Khobar.

Nov 17, 2000 - British engineer Christopher Rodway, an employee at the military hospital in Riyadh, killed and his wife Jane injured by car bomb in the capital.

Nov 22, 2000 - Two British men and a British woman employed by a Saudi firm 50-percent owned by U.S. aircraft giant Boeing, and one Irish woman, injured by car bomb in Riyadh.

Dec 15, 2000 - David Brown, a British employee of Coca Cola International, badly burned in Khobar by a bomb hidden in a package near the windshield of his car.

March 15, 2001 - A Briton and an Egyptian injured by an explosive device placed in a bin near a bookstore in Riyadh.

May 2, 2001 - Parcel bomb blows up in the face of American doctor Gary Hatch at Saad Medical Center in Khobar, seriously wounding him.

Oct 6, 2001 - Two foreigners including one American killed and four others wounded in Khobar.

June 20, 2002 - British banker Simon John Veness killed in car bomb explosion in Riyadh.

Sept 29, 2002 - German man killed when what appeared to be a bomb ripped through his car in Riyadh.

Feb 20, 2003 - Briton working for defense contractor BAE Systems shot dead in Riyadh.

May 12, 2003 - Suicide bombers attack housing compounds in Riyadh, killing 35 people. At least 200 are wounded.

Nov 9, 2003 - Suspected al Qaeda suicide bombers blow up Riyadh residential compound housing foreigners and Saudis, killing 18.

May 1, 2004 - Gunmen kill five Westerners and two police in a shooting spree in the oil center Yanbu.

May 29, 2004 - Militants attack oil company and housing compounds in Khobar, then flee to the Oasis housing compound in the city, taking dozens of hostages. Seven Saudi security police killed.

May 30, 2004 - Saudi commandos storm the Oasis compound and free 41 hostages. Twenty-two civilians are killed including an American, a Briton and an Italian. Three gunmen escape.



TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: khobar; saudiarabia; yanbu

1 posted on 05/31/2004 5:58:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It's going to get much worse in the Magic Kingdom..


2 posted on 05/31/2004 6:03:37 PM PDT by Dog (In Memory of Pat Tillman ---- ---- ---- American Hero.)
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To: Dog

They are after our supplies...


3 posted on 05/31/2004 6:18:29 PM PDT by Flavius ("... we should reconnoitre assiduosly... " Vegetius)
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To: Dog

...Wish I could prove yer wrong, but my heart says, no case...


4 posted on 05/31/2004 8:53:42 PM PDT by gargoyle
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To: All

Looks like the world is ready for whatever alternative to petroleum now.


5 posted on 06/01/2004 1:51:02 AM PDT by Bazooka (Just say what you think. They hate us anyway.)
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