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| BBC Security Correspondent shot, cameraman killed, in Saudi |
| 2004-06-06 |
| BBC cameraman Simon Cumbers has been killed and BBC correspondent Frank Gardner injured after gunmen opened fire near the Saudi capital, Riyadh. Cumbers, 36, was a freelance journalist and cameraman working for the BBC and other news organisations, the BBC said in a statement. Frank Gardner, 42, is a leading expert on al-Qaeda, the statement said. The BBC statement said the two men had travelled to Saudi Arabia last week following terrorist attacks in the city of Khobar and have been reporting from the country for BBC News since then. It said that Mr Gardner was being treated in hospital in Riyadh.BBC Director of News Richard Sambrook said: "Our thoughts are with the families of Simon and Frank tonight. We are in touch with them and offering them all the support that we can." The southern Riyadh neighbourhood where the gun attack took place, al-Suwaydi, has been the location for anti-terror raids in the past, news station al-Arabiya reported. Security sources said the gunmen had escaped and roadblocks had been set up in an effort to catch them, the Reuters news agency reported. |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #3 I am comvinced that the terrorists have pre-determined safe houses to go to after each killing spree. They have hundreds of thousands of sympathizers who would gladly open their houses to them. Some of these neighbourhoods are like laberinths, where in order to find somebody one would have to empty the neighbourhood. Of course, this could never be done because of the great "humiliation" to which the residents would be subjected. |
| Posted by: Anonymous4617 2004-06-06 11:23:30 PM |
| #2 .com - I dunno, it didn't change Robert Fisk's mental defects any when he got beat by those morons. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2004-06-06 8:47:44 PM |
| #1 Looks like Nayef's Keystone Kops haven't quite pacified the al Suwaydi neighborhood, yet, in the capitol city of Saudi Arabia. And, again, we see the gunmen got away. Must've had it surrounded. Odd when Rooters reports on the BBC. Sympathies to Cumbers' family - and I hope Gardner recovers. I don't doubt that he will have a fresh outlook regards Saudi Arabia, Prince Nayef, and AlQ after this encounter. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-06 7:27:24 PM |