Saudi Journalist: Bombings were horrific/Stormed into complex !

[KoKo]

How do you show up, kill Security Guards, storm into a complex and then set off bombs? Where were the bombs that they set off? Did they bring the bombs in with them? How big is a bomb? Many, Many questions with this article.
Read the whole thing. It's very odd!


Saudi journalist: Bombings were
'horrific'



RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CNN) --A day after the United States warned about the threat of
terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia, unknown attackers -- who the Saudis say were al
Qaeda members -- stormed into a residential complex in Riyadh not far from the U.S.
Embassy and set off three powerful explosions that have left a large number of
casualties.

CNN International's Colleen McEdwards spoke with Raid Qusti, Riyadh
bureau chief for the Arab News daily newspaper, about the blasts that rocked
the Saudi capital.

McEDWARDS: Raid, what's the latest from where you are?

QUSTI: The latest is that it has been confirmed that there was a gunbattle.
Terrorists opened fire on security guards outside of the compound, and then
they broke their way inside the compound and set up explosives that eventually
ripped through several buildings.

McEDWARDS: Sorry Raid, I just missed a little bit of what you said. Is it
clear how they broke into the compound?

QUSTI: Preliminary reports are telling us that they engaged in a gunbattle after
they entered with their vehicles.

McEDWARDS: Any indication of how many cars?

QUSTI: No, we're still receiving information as we speak now.

McEDWARDS: The Saudi Health Ministry has reported one person killed, 14
wounded. Are you hearing anything more current on the official toll of casualties
or people who have been killed?

QUSTI: The official toll so far regarding the people who have been injured is
50. Our man is at one of the hospitals where people are being rushed in.

McEDWARDS: Can you just describe what the scene was like when you saw
it and what witnesses told you?

QUSTI: If I were to put it in one word it would be "horrific:" The idea that all
of this is happening in the capital, especially during the holy month of Ramadan.
As you might know, the Ramadan is the sacred holy month
Muslims fast, and they ask God for forgiveness. Riyadh, as any other city in the
kingdom, is 100 percent Muslim. The time when the blasts took place was
twelve o'clock midnight. People were having their full meal ... Many, many
people I spoke to were outraged hearing that innocent children might have been
. If this sign says anything, it is a clear sign that are no longer
differentiating between Muslims and non-Muslims. They want clearly to inflict
fear in the lives of people here.
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[ThorsteinVeblen]

1. CIA or Saudi SS?

What would be the motive for Al Queada to attack innocent Muslims during Ramadan? It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

It only makes if the attacks are being used to drive a wedge between the radical muslim population and the people currently benefitting from the staus quo in Saudi Arabia. Once you get the non-radical middle class on your side, it might be easier politically to attack the radicals as "terrorists". What the CIA may be trying to do is make the distinction that Bush is always talking about. "Good" Muslims from "Terrorists".

[madrchsod]

3. saudi arabia has

some very deep problems almost the same as the usa. not enough jobs for the young under educated,great wealth with a shrinking middle class. education and health services are under funded and out of date. the repression of half the population since women are unable to have rights.
it isn`t any out side force it`s the corruption of the society that is the trigger in these attacks.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. al Qaeda started out as...

a Saudi insurgency to destroy the corruption of the royal family and bring the country back to fundamental Islam. That was bin Laden's goal before he started blaming the US for half of SA's problems.

Or something like that. It's always difficult to tell with wild-eyed revolutionaries.

Anyway, it seems like they are getting back to their roots. The US "war on terrorism" doesn't seem to apply to Arabs killing each other.

[SweetheartLikeYou]

6. Yes and don't forget

the Saudi family bin Ladens (FOB - that would be Friends of Bush in this case) and the Saudi family OSAMA bin Laden...now, there's a connection!

[madrchsod]

2. bbc radio is also reporting

the same thing about the attacks. the saudi`s have been chasing these guys for the several months now and have arrested many but as this attack points out ,there are alot of people fed up in one way or another about the way saudi arabia is being run...

[Nlighten1]

5. How long before this happens in the US?

November 04 is not too far away.