Posted on 06/12/2004 10:46:38 AM PDT by Brian Mosely
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - An American was shot and killed Saturday while parking his car at his home in the Saudi capital, the third slaying of a Westerner in the kingdom in a week.
Witnesses told The Associated Press that the American man was pulling into his home's parking garage when three militants shot him in the back, then moved closer to fire more shots from a short distance.
The chief of police in Riyadh said a "resident holding the American nationality" was killed in the capital's Malaz district Saturday afternoon, according to the official Saudi Press Agency.
A U.S. Embassy spokesperson, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that an American was killed but gave no further details or identity.
An estimated 8.8 million foreigners work among 17 million Saudis, mostly in the oil sector, banking and other high-level businesses.
The series of killings has raised fears that militants are stepping up attacks in Saudi Arabia after a May 29 assault claimed by al-Qaida on a housing complex in the eastern city of Khobar, in which 22 people were killed, most foreign oil workers.
On Tuesday, an American who worked for a U.S. defense contractor was shot and killed. Last Sunday, an Irish cameraman was killed and a British TV correspondent was critically wounded when fired on while filming in a neighborhood that is home to many Islamic militants.
On May 22, a German chef was shot and killed outside a bank in Riyadh. The offices of an American energy company also were attacked on May 1 in the western city of Yanbu, killing six Westerners and a Saudi.
The Saudi government, which launched a high-profile campaign against terrorists after suicide bombings last year, has blamed the attacks on people inspired by, or belonging to, the al-Qaida terror network led by Saudi-born Osama bin Laden.
The United States has urged all its citizens to leave the kingdom and the British Foreign Office has advised Britons against all nonessential travel to Saudi Arabia.
Isn't this just like Islam. Cowards. Pure and simple!
Grrrrrrr
The problem for SA is that 8.8 million armed foreigners are the equivalent of an armed Arab force of 88 million.
This brings SHAME to the House of Saud...
We keep hearing the myth that an Arab must protect their invited guests...
This is what the bastards keep telling us is the reason that OBL has not been surrendered for the reward...
I guess this protection doesn't apply to Infidels..
Arab islamists are proving to the world, that they are the cockroaches of humanity....the cowardly, lying, murderous, fanatic Nazis of the desert....
The concept of "ethnic cleansing" is beginning to look like a rational solution....
Semper Fi
This is a phase of the 4th World War I've been anticipating. Once AQ "cleanses" SA of Westerners via assassinations and intimidation, a reciprocal process will gradually evolve in the West. Eventually, arab countries will be "quarantined" like rabid animals. If Western businessmen no longer have the will, reason or ability to travel to SA, there will be no reason to allow arab muslims to board jets for flights to the West. Of course, the oil fields and terminals will grind to a halt and shut off the oil flow, leading to global recession and/or a Western military occupation of the oil fields and terminals. Events are unfolding as I've seen them for a long time.
Say NO to infidels
Unfortunately there's the slight problem that without foreigners working in the SA oil industry, the global economy collapses. SA can't replace them with indigenous workers - Saudi citizens are ideologically opposed to work.
I hope I live long enough to see the Islamists destroyed, and the Arab strangle hold on the world's economies, ended..
Since the cockroaches have refused to enjoy their unearned wealth in peace and quiet -- they should be driven back into their deserts, and have their women whispering in the dark about the men who came from the west, north and east to kill their men, destroy their cities and drive them back into the desert..
Semper Fi
According to the Koran Muslim may kill an infidel with impunity or make him a slave.
To them unbelievers are less than human.
These Arab Muslim fundamentals do not belong in the company of civilized people or nations.
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