Saudi Gunmen Kill at Least Six People

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By ADNAN MALIK, Associated Press Writer

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Gunmen entered the office of an oil contractor in Saudi Arabia and began shooting at random Saturday, killing at least six people — two American engineers, two Britons, an Australian and a Saudi — in what a Saudi official called an "indiscriminate evil rampage."


The fleeing gunmen led police on a chase through the northwest Saudi city of Yanbu, exchanging fire outside a Holiday Inn before police caught up with them in a downtown shootout, a witness said. The Interior Ministry said three attackers were killed and one was captured.


There was no immediate word on who was behind the shooting, but U.S. officials had warned in recent weeks of possible attacks against foreigners in Saudi Arabia, an important U.S. ally.


The attack began at a petrochemical plant co-owned by Exxon Mobil and the Saudi company SABIC.


"Four individuals entered the offices of a Saudi contractor and randomly shot at Saudi and foreign employees," the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040501/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_attack

...is that the Australian's body was dragged behind a car for nearly an hour, according to regional press reports.

Think about that. This isn't Iraq -- it's Saudi Arabia. Could you drag a body behind a car around a city for an hour in the US? Probably not. Sounds like 'law and order' isn't as orderly in Saudi Arabia as they would like us to think.

Here's link to a 'dragging' report from the FT of London:

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/WireFeed/WireFeed&c=WireFeed&cid=1083163073156

Local journalists quoted witnesses in Yanbu as seeing one of the Westerners being dragged through the streets from the back of a car.

Well, yeah. You can drag a body behind a car in Jasper, Texas for instance and not even get caught until days later.

If the draggee is in a member of a group hated in the region, the dragger can go on a spree for a while.

category on the NYSE.

Before dumping the body in a gutter. Then they shot up a McDonalds but it was closed. Then they were killed.

"Later, the Saudi Press Agency quoted Abdullah as telling a gathering of princes in Jiddah that "Zionism is behind terrorist actions in the kingdom. I can say that I am 95 percent sure of that."

"He said Zionism had misled "some of our sons," but did not elaborate. Anti-Israeli sentiment runs high in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Arab world because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SAUDI_ATTACK?SITE=WOZZ&SECTION=HOME

also at link provided.

The continued habit of seeking a scapegoat in Israel is so nauseating. This what leads to attacks on innocent Israelis. sham on the Crown Prince. He should first eliminate anti-semitism.