U.S. Military Attacked in Saudi Capital

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20040602/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_attacks

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Gunmen attacked American military personnel in the capital Riyadh on Wednesday, slightly injuring the driver, while police killed two militants in an unrelated incident in the kingdom's west.


A security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified one of the dead as Abdul Rahman Mohammed Yazji, No. 25 on a list of Saudi Arabia's 26 most-wanted militants. The other man could not be immediately identified.


The attack on the Americans came just days after gunmen opened fire and took several hostages in a raid on a compound in the eastern oil city of Khobar. Twenty-two people, mostly foreigners working in the oil industry, were killed in that raid, which ended after commandos raided the compound. One gunman was wounded and arrested; three others escaped.


A brief U.S. Embassy statement said shots were fired Wednesday morning on two vehicles carrying U.S. military personnel near a Saudi National Guard compound where a U.S. training unit is based.

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[NNN0LHI]

1. kick

[MaineDem]

2. I thought we closed our bases in Saudi

Apparently not.

[struggle4progress]

7. Well, we announced that we were closing them.

Of course, I don't believe much of what I hear from the Bushistas nowadays.

[DulceDecorum]

3. Those damn fools

are actually trying to rock the Casbah.
I guess the chick had to go.

The Interior Ministry statement said one of the men was disguised as a woman. It said there were no injuries among security forces.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20040602/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_attacks

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Sounds like we moved in with the Saudis instead

I wonder whose command those troops are under, when they are living on a Saudi base?

[pinniped]

4. Saudi Arabia has been a hotspot as of late...

Mass killing of foreign workers etc...

Wonder what/who ticked them off?

[donsu]

6. speaking of Saudis - 300 flown out of US after 9/11

saw this at www.buzzflash.com this morning. that it was 300 Saudis that were flown out of the US

[FlemingsGhost]

8. An act of war... Invade!

C'mon George. "Cowboy up," you pussy.

Make the world safer for democracy. They got plenty of oil, too.
Could it be this shit will go unpunished because the Saudis can actually put up a fight?

Just what I thought, Dubya. A whimp... just like yer daddy.

[Aidoneus]

9. it is already invaded & occupied, in a sense

That is why they are being fired on, after all..