12 killed, hostages held in Saudi Arabia

shawn703

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Sat May-29-04 03:34 PM
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12 killed, hostages held in Saudi Arabia

Four gunmen have attacked an oil company compound in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, killing at least 12 people and taking a number of hostages, according to informed sources and Saudi officials.

One American and one British citizen were among the dead, western diplomatic sources said. A U.S. State Department spokesman said two Americans are known to be wounded.

The U.S. embassy in Riyadh has advised all American citizens to leave Saudi Arabia, officials there said.

more...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/29/saudi.shooting/index.html

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acmavm

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Sat May-29-04 03:38 PM
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1. Haven't they told all Americans to leave a number of times before

this? Are these people not paying attention? The Middle East is not a safe place for people of pale skin to be at this point in history. I think that they're pretty sick and tired of all our little excursions into their countries trying to determine their governments and their lives to plan on spending any time there. Especially considering the fiasco that bush* & co. have made of Iraq.

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Leilani

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Sat May-29-04 04:29 PM
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3. Problem is :

Considering how much they hate pale skinned foreigners, why do the Saudis have so many of them in their country to run oil production?

There is much hypocrisy on both sides.

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Spoon

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Sat May-29-04 03:49 PM
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2. This is a very serious situation, as this is the "Nerve Center"

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=529392

The oil markets will be rocked on Tuesday. :scared:

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specialsas

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Sat May-29-04 04:45 PM
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4. Ask yourself this...

Would this have happened if bush was not in charge.

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Sat May-29-04 05:41 PM
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5. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=589938

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