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CBC NEWS
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - A Saudi doctor says as many as 50 bodies were brought to his hospital following four car bomb attacks that targeted U.S. and Saudi interests in Riyadh Monday.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said 10 Americans and a large number of other nationals were killed in the bombings.


Colin Powell

Reports for the scenes of the bombings suggest the charred bodies of nine suicide bombers have been found at the four sites around Riyadh.

About 60 people were injured, officials said, and the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Robert Jordan, told CNN that 40 of the injured were Americans.

As many as seven Canadians were injured in the attacks, one seriously.

Hours before Powell's visit to the Saudi capital, gunmen shot their way into three compounds housing westerners and Saudis and set off car bombs, officials said.


The morning after the bombing

The string of attacks occurred in quick succession, capped by a fourth explosion early Tuesday outside the headquarters of a joint U.S.-Saudi owned company in Riyadh.

U.S. and Saudi officials suspect Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network was behind the bombings. Powell said the bombings "had the earmarks of al-Qaeda."

"I believe al-Qaeda has been weakened, but it has not been destroyed," Powell told a news conference in Amman, Jordan.

Smoke rose into the night sky from one of the attacked compounds, located in the Granata neighbourhood in eastern Riyadh, and a helicopter circled overhead, scanning the ground with a searchlight.

Hundreds of anti-riot police and members of the elite National Guard were evacuating the area and sealing it off as ambulances rushed in.

The compounds are upscale gated communities housing corporate executives and other professionals. About half of them are westerners – mostly British, Italian and French, but also some Americans – and the rest Saudis and other Arabs, a Saudi official said.

A counterintelligence official in Washington said intelligence from the past two weeks indicated al-Qaeda was close to launching a strike in Saudi Arabia.





The incident follows an alert earlier this month from the U.S. State Department warning Americans not to travel to Saudi Arabia because of concerns over terrorism.

Recently, Saudi officials said al-Qaeda was planning attacks in the oil-rich kingdom, which is the birthplace of Osama bin Laden and home to 15 of the 19 hijackers in the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks.

A Saudi official says security forces found a large cache of weapons and explosives in Riyadh during a search for suspected terrorists on May 6.

The official says authorities are searching for 19 men – including an Iraqi who holds both Canadian and Kuwaiti citizenship – in connection with terrorism plots.



Written by CBC News Online staff

   

You can always say American foreign policy caused the attack in Riyadh, but we just saw al-Qaeda's forein policy at work, didn't we? Gimme George's foreign policy anyday!

   

[font=Tahoma]Americans are by far the most desireable targets but any person from a nation founded on a tradition of Christianity will do for these honorless scum. If their beef is with America bring it on, leave non-Americans out of it.

I could not help but note that the spineless cowards did not target any of the U.S. Military sites in S.A.. Trust me, there are quite a few and if waging war on the tools of America's agression was their primary goal, they certainly would not attack"innocent and defenseless" non-Americans now would they?

COWARDS! :evil[/font]
IronMike

   

Good point IronMike, unfortunately in their twisted world they believe this is alright.
Shoot first.....ask questions later.....if you feel like it!

   

Get on board, jean, you had plenty of warning. THEY hate US. Not only the "U.S." Good point Ironmike, they always hit civilians, never military. Think it won't happen here? Sometimes I hate to be right! Can y'all say "soft target'?
PS: If you consider the USS COLE a military target, consider the fact they had clearance to re-supply & re-fuel in a so-called "friendly port". Bet the moms & dads, brothers & sisters, daughters & sons of the casualties don't consider it a friendly port! Cowards don't deserve military tribunals, or protection under the "Geneva Conventions". Guantanamo Bay is Waaaay too good. Its war! EVERYDAY! Think these pricks care if ya voted liberal in the last election and just "give peace a chance? Sadly, LOL's for the seeming majority of my countrymen & women.

   

FOOTNOTE: Love to talk longer, but the game is starting, and I stand-up for BOTH national anthems. Gotta go.

   

Guess ABSOLUT_SS forgot to sign in again!

   

IronMike it's not just the nations founded on Christian traditions that these people hate. They seek to spread there brand of Islam worldwide and will kill anyone to do it be the Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslims who speak out against them, atheist and anyother religion or faith.

They choose not to attack military targets because they know that many people in the Western world have short memories. They know they can get away with murdering thousands of innocence but when the forces of the West or as has been the case in recent history, America moves against them the world promptly forgets about the innocent people that the terrorist's INTENTIONALLY slaughtered and well condem America for any innocence killed UNINTENTIONALLY. This being the case they don't see the point in attacking a hard target like a military instellation when there are plenty of soft civilians targets to choose from. That being the nature of cowards.

Here's an artical you might find interesting
The New Arab Way of War

   

Pole,
Correct as usual King Friday. And your posted article is correct. These radical Muslim groups come from a tradition of very skilled warriors/fighters. Now they have degenerated to spineless terrorists who are willing to die for there cause and take out as many women and children they can in the process.

IronMike

   

There's been another terrorist attack this time in Morocco. Not sure if any Canadians were killed.

40 Killed As Terror Blasts Shake Morocco

Don't be saying this had anything to do with the Iraq war. Belgium was oppossed to the war from the start but the didn't stop the terrorist from attacking their consulate. Canada should learn from this.

*Update
39 Dead, Scores Hurt in Morocco Bombing

   

Their attacking anybody they deem to be western and/or influenced by the US. The war in Iraq caused a lot of people to sign up with terrorist groups like Al Queda, so there are more terrorists.

This attack and the one in Saudi Arabia are likely the work of Osama's boys though. They never had any real connection to Saddam in the first place. The invasion of Iraq never had anything to do with anything but oil in the first place. Their numbers were swollen by the attack though.

   

B.S. on the oil theory, Rev. I know a province with a lot of oil, and I haven't heard of any "shock & awe" happening there. "Oil" is just a convenient theory. Ossama will always have followers, Iraq or not. Uncle Adolph has been gone for a while now, & he still has a lot of fans.

   

World's largest oil consumers = United States

World's largest oil reserves= Iraq

Do the math. Is it that hard to see?

The majority of Alberta's big oil companies are American owned already.

As far as UBL goes, people just don't follow him, they believe and follow the ideology/cause of Al Queda, which is encompassed by fundamentalism. These people are willing to commit suicide for their belief. I don't see any Nazi/skinheads that are prepared to do that.

   

No - what Jean did was correct. By not sticking our necks out (with nothing to gain). We do not make ourselves a target.

It may be that one day this war will come to us, but it will not come to us as violently or as soon as it is coming to the US and UK.

We are safer because of what JC did.

   

We were and always will be a potental target for al-Qaeda and others like them simply because we do not subscribe to their extremist brand of Islam. That alone is reason enough for them to want to kill us. We are not safer because of what Jean did. Belgium was oppossed to the war from the start and they where targeted. By not supporting the US or Britian we have abandoned are two closest allies. We have common cause with them as the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Make no mistake if the US and Britain can't stop al-Qaeda and their ilk then one day they will come for us, and on that day Chrietien's name will be cursed by every Canadian who believes in freedom.

   

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