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...long after 9/11 that the attack was the work of "Zionists," while even Crown Prince Abdullah, the day-to-day ruler of the kingdom in light of the debilitating illness of King Fahd, blamed the same mythologized foreign element for the recent terror spree in the oil town of Khobar...
...ventured last week into al-Suwaydi, a Riyadh neighborhood known as a stronghold of Islamic extremists. Gardner, a BBC correspondent, and cameraman Simon Cumbers had arrived in Saudi Arabia a week earlier to cover the aftermath of the May 29 terrorist rampage in the oil-industry city of Khobar, which killed 22. As Gardner and Cumbers prepared to do some filming, a car pulled up alongside them. A man opened fire with a machine pistol, killing Cumbers and leaving Gardner fighting for his life. A photo taken by a bystander shows Gardner, his shirt and trousers soaked in blood, struggling...
...Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia and Algeria. "We instruct the jihadi youth to direct their efforts against the Crusaders," he commanded. "Kill them wherever you find them." On May 1, four terrorists carried out an assault in Yanbu on the Red Sea, killing five foreigners. The late May blitz on Khobar was far more devastating. Beginning about 7:30 a.m., four young fanatics shot up the offices of oil-industry firms at two locations in the Persian Gulf coastal city. They murdered the British vice president of a Saudi company, then dragged his body from the back of their car for nearly...
...will continue to chase this deviant group until we eradicate them." CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH, Saudia Arabia's de facto ruler, following an assault by Saudi forces on a housing complex in Khobar, where Islamic extremists killed Saudi and foreign oil workers and took many hostages...
...Gunmen shot dead Dusko Jovanovic, the controversial editor of Montenegro 's conservative daily Dan newspaper. Dan was frequently critical of the coalition government of Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic. New Terror SAUDI ARABIA Security forces stormed a housing complex for expatriate oil workers in the eastern city of al-Khobar, where suspected Islamic militants took an estimated 50 hostages after going on a shooting rampage that left up to 16 people dead. The al-Qaeda linked al-Quds Brigade are reported to have claimed responsibility. Disputed Claim SOUTH AFRICA The opposition Democratic Alliance accused police commissioner Jackie Selebi of "grandstanding...