[onedoug]

Reaping what their filthy princes have sown.

God Bless the innocents. Their loved ones might take some solace though, in that we're really going to win this thing.

[Ophiucus]

Puzzling. Al Qaeda is coming close to biting the hand that feeds them. Even if foreign targets were intended, this strikes close to the biggest Saudi Al Qaeda supporters.

[WackyKat]

Looks like western intelligence was right to give those warnings.

[blam]

MSNBC just reported that one American is missing and one is injured.

[Hunble]

Arabs killing Arabs.

It does break my heart to watch people being murdered. However, nobody can stop the violence in the Middle East, until the Arab people unite together and put and end to it.

Perhaps today's murder of innocent Arab lives will motivate the population toward ending this violence.

[Billthedrill]

Interesting. The target isn't obviously American or even Western. This may - MAY - represent the stirrings of a fundamentalist hand in the succession within the monarchy. The Wahhabis were, in fact, largely responsible for the accession to the throne of the family of Saud; they've been the power behind the throne ever since. If this is such a manifestation (and it's only a suggestion on my part) then things may soon get very ugly indeed in Riyadh. There are already signs that the intelligence services are conducting a nasty little internecine war even involving members of the royal family. Were real fundamentalists to topple the existing government the U.S. intervention in Iraq will look like a minor matter. In fact, it has been suggested that freeing Iraq from Saddam was, in part, a measure to guard against the potential complications of just such an eventuality.

[GatekeeperBookman]

They have a million in abject poverty who hate the Royals.