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Chronology of attacks on Westerners in Saudi Arabia
15 Sep 2004 18:50:32 GMTSource: Reuters LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Three suspected Muslim militants gunned down a Briton in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Wednesday, security sources and diplomats said. The British embassy confirmed his nationality but declined to give his name. Here is a short chronology of attacks on Westerners in Saudi Arabia: Nov. 13, 1995 - Five Americans and two Indians are killed and 60 people wounded in an explosion at a car park near a U.S.-run military training centre in Riyadh. June 25, 1996 - A bomb in a fuel truck kills 19 American soldiers and wounds nearly 400 people at a U.S. military housing complex in the eastern city of Khobar. Nov. 17, 2000 - British engineer Christopher Rodway is killed and his wife Jane injured by a car bomb in the capital. Nov. 22, 2000 - Three British employees of a Saudi firm joint owned by U.S. aircraft giant Boeing, and one Irish woman are injured by a car bomb in Riyadh. Dec. 15, 2000 - David Brown, a British employee of Coca Cola International, is badly burned by a bomb in Khobar. March 15, 2001 - A Briton and an Egyptian are injured by an explosive device placed in a bin near a bookstore in Riyadh. May 2, 2001 - A parcel bomb seriously wounds American doctor Gary Hatch at Saad Medical Centre in Khobar. Oct. 6, 2001 - Two foreigners, including one American, are killed and four others wounded in Khobar. June 20, 2002 - British banker Simon John Veness is killed by a car bomb in Riyadh. Sept. 29, 2002 - A German man dies when what appears to be a bomb rips through his car in Riyadh. Feb. 20, 2003 - A Briton working for defence contractor BAE Systems is shot dead in Riyadh. May 12, 2003 - Suicide bombers attack housing compounds in Riyadh, killing 35 people. At least 200 are wounded. Nov. 9, 2003 - Suspected al Qaeda suicide bombers blow up a Riyadh residential compound housing foreigners and Saudis, killing 18. May 1, 2004 - Gunmen kill five Westerners and two police in a shooting spree in the oil centre Yanbu. May 29, 2004 - Militants attack oil company and housing compounds in Khobar then flee to the city's Oasis housing compound, taking dozens of hostages. Seven Saudi security police are killed. May 30, 2004 - Saudi commandos storm the Oasis compound and free 41 hostages. Twenty-two civilians are killed including an American, a Briton and an Italian. Three gunmen escape. June 6, 2004 - Saudi gunmen kill Simon Cumbers, an Irish cameraman working for the BBC, and seriously wound his British colleague Frank Gardner in an Islamist militant area of Riyadh. June 8 - An American working for U.S. company Vinnell, which helps train the Saudi National Guard, is shot dead in Riyadh. June 12 - Kenneth Scroggs, a U.S. national, is shot dead in Riyadh in the suburb of Malazz. Al Qaeda claim responsibility. June 18 - Paul Johnson, an employee of U.S. defence contractor Lockheed Martin, is beheaded after being kidnapped on June 12. He is the first Westerner to be kidnapped in Saudi Arabia. Aug. 3 - An Irish civil engineer who worked for a Saudi firm is shot dead in his office in eastern Riyadh. Sept. 15 - Three suspected Muslim militants gun down a Briton in the east of Riyadh near a shopping complex. Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-09-15 |
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