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British cyclist "deliberately run down" in Saudi Arabia
John Currie, who worked for BAE Systems formerly British Aerospace is believed to have been one four cyclists who started being "cut up" by local youths in two cars on a main road on the outskirts of Riyadh, the Saudi capital.Initially, it is understood that one of the cars clipped a cyclist causing him to fall off his bike. Then, however, one of the drivers is alleged to have turned around and deliberately ploughed his car into the cyclists. Mr Currie, 54, a human resources worker, is said to have been smashed against the vehicle's windscreen in the incident on Thursday, and later died from his serious injuries. His widow, Pauline, was returning to Britain this weekend. The couple, from Chester, Cheshire, are believed to have two grown-up children. Mr Currie's body will be flown home for a funeral service. In the past 15 years, there have been a number of terrorist attacks on British and other western nationals in Saudi Arabia by Muslim extremists. Several westerners have been killed and even more injured in a series of bombs and gun attacks. Radicals are angry that US and British oil companies and their staff are operating on Saudi soil. Except these wasn't your organized "terrorists". These were run of the mill Saudis exhorted from birth to hate and subjugate or murder the infidels and saw a couple of vulnerable, unsubjugated infidels on the side of the road. Posted by: ed 2010-03-03 |
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