Word: riyadh
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...over, London and Washington issued broad warnings of possible imminent attacks against British and American interests abroad. In Muslim countries, the chosen targets have symbolized mainly Western and Jewish interests--Jakarta's J.W. Marriott Hotel, Casablanca's tourist sites and Jewish centers, residential compounds for foreign workers in Riyadh, Istanbul's synagogues and British offices. But a second assault in Riyadh Nov. 8 was on a compound housing mainly Muslims and Arabs. And the locale of all these strikes may contain a grim message for Muslims: Beware, anyone who cooperates with the West--the danger extends...
...terrorist attack on the al-Muhaya housing enclave in Riyadh on Nov. 8 that killed 18 Muslims has shocked and sickened many Saudi citizens. "Any sympathy [for Osama bin Laden] has more or less evaporated," contends Saudi journalist Tariq Alhomayed. But the rotten public-relations fallout is not likely to alter al-Qaeda's plans. Saudi officials are preparing for the worst as 2 million of the faithful converge next week on the holy city of Mecca to celebrate the Eid ul-Fitr feast. Saudi officials say they dispatched 4,700 extra security forces there last week after foiling...
...Qaeda, meanwhile, has taken measures to counter the government's crackdown, which began after terrorists struck a Riyadh housing complex on May 12, killing 34 people. A CD found with radical Islamists in Saudi Arabia shortly before the al-Muhaya bombing and provided to TIME by French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard shows four Saudi jihadists praising bin Laden and warning infidels, "We will not let you live safely." They go on to tout an "impending act" that, they suggest, they won't survive. Intelligence sources tell Jacquard that the four participated in the May bombing. The CD also features...
...more decentralized entity relying principally on the structures and energies of pre-existing local groups ideologically in synch with al-Qaeda. The perpetrators of last Saturday's Istanbul synagogue bombings, for example, are Turkish Islamists associated with al-Qaeda linked groups operating inside Turkey. Similarly, attacks in Riyadh and Indonesia have been carried out by members of local Islamist organizations with links to al-Qaeda. The very term "al-Qaeda" now doesn't necessarily have the same implication as it did on 9/11, when attacks carried out on U.S. soil by foreign terrorists were micromanaged by a senior operational echelon...
...Terror strikes in the heart of Muslim cities such as Casablanca, Riyadh and Istanbul are also designed to provoke a confrontation between pro-U.S. regimes and indigenous Islamists, in the hope that these regimes could be weakened or toppled. The movement's primary strategic objective is to gain control of Muslim countries, eliminating Western influence and establishing Islamist regimes. But pursuing that goal via terrorist bombings in those countries carries the inherent risk of turning potentially sympathetic public opinion against the extremists, as it did in Egypt during the 1990s when terror attacks on tourists and civilians prompted many...