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| Saudi Security Forces Defuse Bomb, Maybe |
| 2004-01-05 |
| Saudi security forces defused a bomb in a telephone booth in a Riyadh neighborhood that has seen several confrontations between police and alleged terrorists, a security official said Monday. But an Interior Ministry official who declined to be named gave a different version of the incident, saying it involved a bomb training device that did not contain any explosives. The different versions could not be immediately reconciled. I’ll put money on the real bomb. If the Saudi Interior Mullahstry said the sun was coming up, I’d go outside to check. The security official said on condition of anonymity that a man found the bomb in the telephone booth next to a gas station on Sultana Street, a main thoroughfare in eastern Riyadh. Sultana Street passes through the ultraconservative district, scene of several confrontations between police and alleged terrorists. Someone put a fatwa on phone booths? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 More details: In the oil-rich Saudi kingdom, police experts have defused a bomb at an electricity distribution power station in a Riyadh suburb, according to a report by Al Arabiya TV on Monday. The report said the bomb was found at the Sultana residential district. According to local residents, the bomb was found Sunday night at a private telephone call office next to the petrol station on Sultana St. in the southwest of the city. Saudi security forces sealed off the area at around 10:00 pm (local time) before removing the bomb, residents said. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-1-5 10:30:50 AM |