Reply #76: Jacobs was apparently not Jewish and liked Saudis very much [View All]

Robert Jacobs Loved Going to Camel Races in Riyadh
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News



A file photo of the late Robert C. Jacobs.

WASHINGTON, 10 June 2004 — Robert C. Jacobs, the American citizen who was shot and killed on Tuesday at his home in Riyadh, refused to live on his company’s heavily-fortified compound, preferring to live among Saudis in a middle class neighborhood.

“My son refused to live in the secure compound provided by Vinnell, because he enjoyed living among the Saudis,” his mother, Oma Lee Jacobs, told Arab News in a telephone interview from her home in Illinois. “He liked them, their cuisine, and enjoyed living there. He liked going to camel races and browsing in the markets there.”

Jacobs, 63, was an employee of Vinnell Corp., a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corp. He lived in Saudi Arabia for seven years, where he trained the National Guard in graphic design. “He was training people, but not in warfare,” Mrs. Jacobs explained to her local newspaper.

THE REST of the article can be read at Arab News. One Arabic speaking person on another board was wondering why after seven years in Saudi Arabia, this man did not call out to his attackers in Arabic rather than English: "Wait, wait! No, no!" It is impossible to tell from the video who the victim is or who the attackers are. This will lend itself to more doubts about who is doing some of these killings.

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