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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 10:45 AM
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Gunmen Kill at Least Six at Saudi Oil Facility, Lead Police on Bloody Chas
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA83IS8RTD.html

Gunmen Kill at Least Six at Saudi Oil Facility, Lead Police on Bloody Chase Through Streets

YANBU, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Militants sprayed gunfire inside an oil contractor's office, killing at least six people - including two Americans and three other Westerners - before tying a body to the bumper of a car and dragging it past horrified students at a high school.
Police killed the four gunmen in a shootout after a car chase. One of the attackers was reported to be on the Saudi kingdom's list of most-wanted terrorists, many of them suspects in 2003 suicide attacks on foreign housing compounds in the capital, Riyadh. The two attacks were blamed on al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden's terror network.

Students told The Associated Press on Sunday that bearded men drove a car drove into the parking lot of the Ibn Hayyan Secondary Boys School as classes began Saturday, the start of the school week. They fired into the air to attract students' attention, then urged the boys to go to an Iraqi city where U.S. troops are battling insurgents.

"God is great! God is great! Come join your brothers in Fallujah!" they shouted. Pointing to the bloodied and badly damaged corpse, his clothes shredded, they screamed: "This is the president of America."

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AZCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 10:57 AM
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1. Does anyone know anything about the contractor?
From the article:
<snip>
The two Americans killed were engineers for ABB-Lummus, the Houston-based energy arm of multinational engineering company ABB. A British ABB employee, a British contractor and an Australian employee also were killed, spokesman Bjorn Edlund said from Zurich, Switzerland.
<snip>

Here is the ABB site: www.abb.com (strange sense of irony)

Here's a fact sheet: http://www.hoovers.com/abb-lummus-global/--ID__105795--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml

They are also one of the companies named in the suit by Gulf War Veterans suffering from chemical related illnesses.
link: http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/edit/index.php?op=view&itemid=540

Other than that, I can't find much.
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mbperrin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 11:18 AM
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2. Aren't these the guys who bought Vetco and Gray, two wellhead companies?
Big conglomerate got active in the late 80's, early 90's, buying up some niche-type companies? This is all memory, I'll look around.
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AZCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 11:23 AM
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3. It looks like it- ABB Vetco Gray is a subsidiary...
Edited on Sun May-02-04 11:33 AM by AZCat
But according to Hoovers Online, ABB is looking to offload Vetco Gray in 2004
(link: http://www.hoovers.com/abb-vetco-gray/--ID__110068--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml).

On Edit

From the company history at http://www.abb.com/vetcogray:
- Selection as only wellhead company to support and supply the firefighting and post capping projects in Kuwait after the Gulf War, 1991.
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lostnfound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 10:18 PM
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5. ABB is also Rumsfeld's old company; building nuke plants
for North Korea, if I'm not mistaken.
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nodictators Donating Member (977 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 11:33 AM
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4. This attack is just the latest (and bloodiest) of a series of terrorist...
...attacks in Saudi Arabia.

If these attacks continue and intensify, will we have to send 100,000 or more US troops there, too?

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lostnfound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 10:21 PM
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6. Four dead were from Houston -- here's Chronicle link
Edited on Sun May-02-04 10:21 PM by lostnfound
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