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Brian Whitaker Monday May 31, 2004 The Guardian The weekend carnage in Khobar came less than a month after Saudi Arabia vowed to "strike with an iron fist" against militants who carried out attacks and said it was making every effort to protect foreigners in the kingdom. "The government is doing all it can to protect all residents," the foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, told a news conference. Such assurances have been heard before and will no doubt be heard again, though whether they are likely to cut much ice with the foreign workers on whom the kingdom depends is...