Saudi royals face extremist threat (al Qaeda coming home)
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Posted by Sabertooth
On 11/09/2003 5:04 AM PST with 2 comments
BBC ^ | November 9th, 2003 | Paul Wood
By Paul Wood BBC Middle East correspondent Dozens were killed in May's suicide bombings Saturday night's suicide bombing is only the latest sign of the increasingly open struggle between the Saudi authorities and Islamic militants. Just six months ago the Saudi authorities liked to maintain there was no al-Qaeda activity whatsoever within the kingdom. Then came two devastating suicide bombings in May killing 35 people. That marked the beginning of a campaign by the Saudi authorities with a string of raids leading to the seizure of weapons, around 600 arrests and in some cases gun battles between police and...
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Deadly blast hits Saudi capital
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Posted by Sabertooth
On 11/09/2003 4:48 AM PST with 5 comments
BBC ^ | November 9th, 2003
Rescuers worked through the night looking for survivors A suicide bombing on a housing complex in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, has caused heavy casualties. Two people have been confirmed dead but diplomats believe many more were killed in the blast which happened at midnight (2100 GMT) on Saturday. The manager of the compound, which houses mainly Arab foreign workers, said 100 people had been wounded, including many children. Saudi officials say the attack bears the hallmarks of al-Qaeda. I heard screams of the children and women Compound resident "This is a crime against innocents which is in the style...
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Suicide Car Bomb Rocks Saudi Capital
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Posted by The Raven
On 11/09/2003 2:05 AM PST with 15 comments
Reuters/Drudge ^ | Nov 9, 2003 | DONNA ABU-NASR
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Three explosions rocked a residential compound in the Saudi capital Saturday night, killing at least two people and wounding 86, in what a government official said was a suicide car bombing. The attack came a day after the U.S. Embassy warned that terror attacks could be imminent in the tense Gulf kingdom, and America's three diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia were closed Saturday as a result. Just before the midnight blasts, an unknown number of attackers broke into the upscale compound of about 200 villas, a Saudi official said, and gunfire was heard. An Interior...
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Suicide bomber kills at least five, wounds scores at Riyadh housing compound
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Posted by Brian S
On 11/08/2003 10:41 PM PST with 18 comments
AFP ^ | 11-09-03
Sunday November 9, 1:45 PM At least five people died and some 100 were wounded in a midnight suicide car bomb attack on a residential compound west of Riyadh, six months after similar blasts hit three complexes in the Saudi capital, officials said. The blast came on the same day the United States closed its missions in Saudi Arabia for a security review after warning of possible terror attacks during the holy month of Ramadan, and which have been echoed by other Western states. An official said Saturday night's carnage bore the hallmarks of the al-Qaeda network headed by Saudi-born...
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US Riyadh Embassy Tells Staff to Restrict Movement
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Posted by yonif
On 11/08/2003 11:29 PM PST with 1 comment
Wired News ^ | November 09, 2003 | Reuters
RIYADH (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Riyadh advised its personnel and dependants Sunday not to leave their compound after a suicide bomb attack by suspected al Qaeda militants on a residential complex killed up to 30 people. "Because of the bombing at a Riyadh residential compound, the embassy is advising the American community in Riyadh that it currently remains closed to the public," the embassy said in a statement on its Web Site. "In addition, embassy personnel and their dependants are restricting their movements and will remain in the diplomatic quarter pending further assessment of the security situation. The...
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Saudi official blames Riyadh attacks on al Qaeda
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Posted by swilhelm73
On 11/08/2003 9:09 PM PST with 30 comments
CNN ^ | 11/9/03 | CNN
(CNN) -- Terrorists stormed past security guards into an affluent, heavily secured residential neighborhood in the Saudi capital Saturday and set off three explosions, journalists and officials in Riyadh said. The attack came one day after the U.S. Embassy announced it would close temporarily over concerns of rising terror threats. A senior official in the Saudi Interior Ministry said his government was certain the attack was planned and carried out by al Qaeda using the same suicide car bombing strategy employed in the May 12 attacks in Riyadh. The triple bombings in May targeted apartment complexes housing Westerners. Those bombings...
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Riyadh’s Night of Terror
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Posted by swilhelm73
On 11/08/2003 7:54 PM PST with 23 comments
Arab News ^ | Sunday, 9, November, 2003 | Raid Qusti
RIYADH, 9 November 2003 — Terrorists struck in the heart of the capital late last night, the official Saudi Press Agency reported. At least one, and perhaps as many as three, explosions rocked a residential compound in western Riyadh. Eyewitnesses reported one big explosion, followed by two smaller ones 15 seconds apart. Smoke could be seen rising from the area of the blast. The streets were crowded when the blasts took place with late-night shoppers because of Ramadan. At least 50 people were injured in the explosion. “So far there are 50 injured,” Health Minister Hamad Al-Manie told Saudi TV....
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Gulf On Terror Alert As Blast Hits Riyadh
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Posted by blam
On 11/08/2003 6:40 PM PST with 2 comments
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 11-9-2003 | Martin Bright
Gulf on terror alert as blast hits Riyadh Smoke seen rising near expatriate compound in Saudi Arabian capital Martin Bright, home affairs editor Sunday November 9, 2003 The Observer An explosion rocked the Saudi capital Riyadh late last night. Smoke could be seen rising from an area in the western part of the city, and there were reports that it was at a residential compound housing foreigners. The blast came a day after the United States warned of the likelihood of terrorist attacks and shut its missions in Saudi Arabia. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has also warned Britons not...
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Saudi officials deny blast claims; only one residential compound in Riyadh was bombed
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Posted by Brian S
On 11/08/2003 5:49 PM PST with 5 comments
AFP ^ | 11-09-03
From correspondents in Riyadh November 9, 2003 A SAUDI official said early Sunday that only one residential compound in Riyadh was bombed Saturday night, denying a US account that three residential complexes were hit by explosions. "There may have been two or three blasts in the al-Muhaya compound, but there were no explosions in three (different) compounds," the official said, requesting anonymity. The State Department said Saturday that three residential compounds housing Westerners in the Saudi capital were hit by explosions and gunfire. "We have initial reports that there were explosions and gunfire at three compounds in Riyadh that house...
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At least 100 wounded in Riyadh bombing: compound manager
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Posted by jonatron
On 11/08/2003 5:39 PM PST with 44 comments
yahoo (AFP) ^ | 1//9/03
At least 100 people, mostly children, were wounded when a bomb rocked the al-Muhaya residential compound west of Riyadh toward midnight (2100 GMT), the compound's manager told AFP. "There are no less than 100 wounded, most of them children," Hanadi al-Khandakli said, adding she could not immediately tell whether there were any fatalities. Khandaqli, who was in the compound at the time of the attack, said "there was gunfire followed by a blast, and a second blast minutes later." She said the complex comprised 200 villas, four of which are inhabited by Western families, including two German and one French.
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Large explosion hits Saudi capital
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Posted by Sabertooth
On 11/08/2003 3:19 PM PST with 15 comments
BBC ^ | Noivember 9th, 2003
Many people were out late at night because of the holy month of Ramadan A powerful explosion has hit Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh. The blast, at about midnight (2100 GMT), hit the Muhaya residential compound, which houses mainly Saudi workers - as well as foreigners - in the west of the capital. One eyewitness said there were many casualties - but there has been no confirmation of this. A spokesman for the Saudi interior ministry described the blast as a terrorist explosion in comments carried by the Saudi press agency (SPA). The explosion, near Riyadh's diplomatic quarter, comes a...
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Explosion Rocks Saudi Capital
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Posted by Tumbleweed_Connection
On 11/08/2003 2:07 PM PST with 6 comments
TBO ^ | 11/8/03 | Donna Abu-Nasr
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Three explosions rocked the Saudi capital Riyadh around midnight Saturday, and smoke could be seen rising from the area of the blast, diplomats said. The diplomats said there was one big explosion at about midnight, followed by two smaller ones 15 seconds apart. Police cars raced toward the direction of the blasts, which appeared to have happened in the western part of the city. An American Embassy spokeswoman confirmed the explosion, but said it was not in the diplomatic quarter. The extent of the damage was not immediately clear, and it wasn't known if there...
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Blast heard in diplomatic quarter of Riyad, Saudi Arabia
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Posted by Tree of Liberty
On 11/08/2003 1:33 PM PST with 564 comments
Fox News Channel | November 8, 2003
A diplomat just informed Fox News that a blast was heard in the diplomatic quarter of the city. No further information was given.
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Saudis arrest 3,000 Iraqi infiltrators
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Posted by knighthawk
On 11/08/2003 6:02 AM PST with 22 comments
Washington Times ^ | November 08 2003 | UPI
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Authorities in Saudi Arabia have arrested 3,000 people who tried to cross clandestinely from Iraq smuggling weapons and drugs, a report said Saturday. The Saudi daily al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper, monitored in Beirut, quoted Washington-based "well-informed sources" that the smugglers were arrested over the past three months. They said the infiltrators were smuggling drugs and weapons on a scale never witnessed before.
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U.S. Warns of Terrorist Attacks in Saudi Arabia, Closes Embassy
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Posted by Tumbleweed_Connection
On 11/07/2003 1:24 PM PST with 3 comments
NewsMax ^ | 11/7/03 | wires
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The United States will close its missions in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for an undetermined period because of "credible" information that terrorists are about to carry out attacks, the U.S. Embassy said Friday. A warden message posted on the embassy's Web site said the missions would assess their "security posture." They will then advise the American community when the review is completed and when the U.S. missions in Riyadh, the seaside city of Jiddah and Dhahran in the Eastern province plan to resume normal operations. The embassy said it had received "credible information that terrorists in...
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US Closing Embassy in Saudi Arabia
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Posted by Kaslin
On 11/07/2003 11:09 AM PST with 8 comments
FNC ^ | Friday, November 07, 2003 | Mike Emanuel, Teri Schultz and Associated Press
The U.S. Embassy will close its offices to review security procedures on Saturday, while embassy officials said terrorists are close to launching an attack in the desert kingdom.The embassy in Riyadh and the U.S. Consulates General in Jeddah and Dhahran will be closed, according to a warden message issued by the embassy on Friday. "The embassy continues to receive credible information that terrorists in Saudi Arabia have moved from the planning to operational phase of planned attacks in the kingdom," stated the message. "The embassy strongly urges all American citizens in the kingdom to be especially vigilant when in any...
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Terror attack close at hand in Saudi Arabia
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Posted by TexKat
On 11/07/2003 10:45 AM PST with 17 comments
Fox News | 11/7/03
Dayside was just interrupted in President George W. Bush's visit to a technical college with breaking news regarding a nearing terror attack in Saudi Arabia
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SAUDI TERROR ALERT (U.S. Closing Embassy in Saudi Arabia)
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Posted by areafiftyone
On 11/07/2003 10:27 AM PST with 203 comments
Sky News ^ | 11/7/03
Terrorists are close to carrying out attacks in Saudi Arabia, the US Embassy has said. More to follow...
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US To Close Embassy in Saudi Arabia
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Posted by Leatherneck_MT
On 11/07/2003 10:30 AM PST with 22 comments
Foxnews ^ | 11/07/2003
No details, just a banner on breaking news on Fox
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