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| I’ve come to the conclusion that these animals can’t be fought using 20th century concepts. After the 30th of June, the Iraqis will need to put in mercenaries who will have complete control after Coalition forces pull back to bases in Iraq. Those forces will supply only logistical and intelligence support. Just to perform a mind exercise, imagine if mercenaries took over. As an idea about what could happen, check out how 500 mercenaries put an end to the Angolan disaster which had raged for decades. Executive Outcomes planned the whole operation. While they were hunting down and killing the terrorists, you had some of the craziest murdering psychopaths, the world has ever seen, begging for mercy and wanting to run to the UN to have their human rights protected. All’s quiet now. And no, the American taxpayer won’t be paying. The new Iraqi government will be, by giving oil concessions to the mercenaries, just as the Angolans gave diamond concessions. I say welcome to the new privatised type of warfare for the 21st Century. Basically NGO warfare between Islamist NGO’s and Non-Islamist NGO militias. .................... THE Australian engineer killed in Saudi Arabia was shot dead by Islamic terrorists who worked undercover alongside him, it has emerged. Anthony Richard Mason, 57, and four other Westerners were gunned down by men who worked as security guards at the giant Exxon Mobil refinery complex in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu. A Saudi was also killed. A company spokesman said three employees working at the plant entered the site on Saturday, letting in a fourth accomplice through an emergency exit. The group stormed into the offices of the Swiss-owned oil services company ABB and at point blank-range fired at workers, killing Mr Mason, two Britons and two Americans instantly. A sixth Saudi man was then shot as the gunmen ran through the sprawling complex firing their M16s and AK-47 assault rifles indiscriminately. One witness said the gunmen looked like teenagers and appeared to be targeting Westerners. There was no warning before the shooting although some employees yelled to others: "Take cover, they’re shooting." A third American, a Pakistani and a Canadian were critically wounded. The gunmen then took their stolen Coast Guard jeep and yelled "jihad, jihad" and "we are Mujahaddin" as they fired their weapons out of the windows. Witnesses said one victim’s body was tied to the back of their grey Toyota LandCruiser and dragged for 3km before being dumped outside the Arab British Bank. A witness said: "The body had all the clothes ripped away except for shreds of underwear and shoes. It was just lying in the gutter. It was horrible to see." During the ensuing shootouts, eight men from the National Guard and 10 from public security were wounded. Between 25 and 50 people were wounded. The gunmen fired shots into other office windows and at a McDonald’s restaurant before police engaged them in a shootout outside a Holiday Inn. Three of the terrorists died instantly and a fourth died in hospital from his injuries. British journalist Michael Cousins said: "They drove through town shooting at everything in sight - cars, people, the lot. They also targeted a McDonald’s and a hotel, shooting at whatever moved. They seemed to be targeting Westerners." After the attacks, police moved in to secure Yanbu’s streets with checkpoints throughout the city, a resident said. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said yesterday it was unclear why the shooting took place but the group may have been linked to al-Qaeda. "We don’t really know who is responsible but you could safely assume [al-Qaeda may be involved]," he said.
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| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 Thank you |
| Posted by: tipper 2004-05-03 11:40:42 AM |
| #2 My BS Detector is flashing red... Okay, let's undo some of the BS in this article: There are no foreign-owned refineries in Saudi. This is the ARAMCO Yanbu refinery. Exxon-Mobile, at most, is a minor investor -- and I have doubts about them "owning" dick, in fact. Most likely, they have some sort of interest which involves providing the modern plant design and a guarantee that they would provide some percentage of the plant engineers. For this they would be paid - but at most, they are minor players. Pfeh - all "companies" in SA are, at minimum, 51% Saudi owned. Start from there and work your way down, folks. Second, all ARAMCO facilities are protected by Aramco's own police - the Industrial Security Department. Period. Full Stop. The locals are not even allowed to come onto Aramco property without explicit approval and chaperones. This usually works to the advantage of ExPats since the local yokels are one step removed from goat-herding. If these jackoffs were, indeed, part of some security force, then they worked for IS. Period. Full Stop. Third, indeed, there is, in Saudi, a very high sentiment in favor of OBL -- most Saudis are poor and see the Royals looting every petrodollar for their own ends. Those who are connected, and it requires connections to get a gig with Aramco, are not. If IS hired these little killers, then some heads will roll for certain. ExPats are very important to the operation of Aramco - to the $$$ that the Royals depend on. And the ROYALS control ARAMCO because ARAMCO makes the MONEY. Forget all the crap about Saudiazation -- any Royal with 2 neurons to rub together knows his countrymen are goat-herding loonies with zero sense and that the ExPats make shit happen while the Saudis are swilling tea and swapping spit. No infidel "journalist" in-Kingdom knows anything not cleared and issued to him by Saudi officials - and in this case, pre-cleared by IS, the only people who really know diddley-squat about what happened on Aramco property. Once they left Aramco's area of control, then it was cleared through Nayef's Security arm of the Interior Ministry. Some of what is here may have happened as written. Know, however, that what you read here has been pre-filtered by at least 2 separate security operations - and they may have conflicting interests - Nayef is one of the loony Royals and is often in direct conflict with the official head of the Royals, the Clown Prince. And other Royals, such as Turki have their own separate agendas. This shit is byzantine. Believe me, this is not the skinny truth - it is what "they" decided to allow to be known. There could've been 20 bad guys, reduced to 4 cuz that's what they have to show at the end of the action. In the end - they hate us but need us. But the Roayls love money far more than they hate ExPats. I feel very sorry for these guys. They were simply regular people who happen to be petro-engineers trying to pay off a mortgage and / or put their kids through college - and foregoing many trappings of modernity, such as living in shitholes and paying through the nose for the privilege, things you take for granted, to do it. Most likely, the majority of these guys have been there, in-Kingdom, for a long time -- long before any of us even had a clue about Islamofascism -- and never dreamed they'd ever be anyone's targets. They probably even thought they had Saudi friends, though that's naive as I found out. Don't forget: you are 100x better informed than they are in LalaLand, and at least 10x better informed than the guy working at the desk next to you. Just a little perspective. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-02 6:21:52 PM |
| #1 Is it now that Westerners are realizing that muslims, in this case Saudis, could not be fought using 20th century concepts? Westerners who have or are still living here and who have never bought into the Arab hospitality shit,have been warning other Westeners about what these people are all about for a while now. We have been called bigots, racists and you name it. For anybody who has ever lived or visited Saudi Arabia, all he/she needed to do to know the depth of sickness of this society, is to observe how minorities (philipinos, Sri Lankas, Hindus.. labor hand) are treated here. |
| Posted by: Anonymous4617 2004-05-02 2:00:09 PM |