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| 2004-09-15 |
| 15 Sep 2004 18:50:32 GMT Source: 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 |
| #10 What about the chronology of genocidal attacks on innocent Iraqis? News and Current Events |
| Posted by: Anonymous6474 2004-09-15 10:07:57 PM |
| #9 What about the chronology of genocidal attacks on innocent Iraqis? News and Current Events |
| Posted by: Anonymous6474 2004-09-15 10:07:57 PM |
| #8 "Imagine a ... cockroach, with a massive inferiority complex, and a real short temper..." a tape on infinite loop instead of brain, leaving shit behind wherever it goes. "That sound like fun? " |
| Posted by: Zarathustra 2004-09-16 12:06:14 AM |
| #7 Moslems do not kill their own brothers, those are assanins hired by Zionists. News and Current Events |
| Posted by: Anonymous6476 2004-09-15 11:00:16 PM |
| #6 Moslems do not kill their own brothers, those are assanins hired by Zionists. News and Current Events |
| Posted by: Anonymous6476 2004-09-15 11:00:16 PM |
| #5 better to call them for the cowardly serb POS they are |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-15 10:29:21 PM |
| #4 Responding to trolls only encourages them, Fawad. Is the oft-reported (but seldom seen) moderate muslim reporting for duty? If so, welcome. |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-09-15 10:18:15 PM |
| #3 Attack on Iraqis by Islamic militants you mean. There are too many to list. It also includes attacks on innocent Indian and Pakistani people by Islamists. Please have the courage to use your name. We will not jump out of the screen at you. |
| Posted by: Fawad 2004-09-15 10:13:11 PM |
| #2 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: Anonymous6474 TROLL 2004-09-15 10:07:57 PM |
| #1 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: Anonymous6474 TROLL 2004-09-15 10:07:57 PM |