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| U.K. Condemns Terrorist Attack on BBC Team in Saudi Capital |
| 2004-06-07 |
June 7, 2004 Bloomberg U.K. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw condemned a terrorist attack in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, that killed a cameraman and wounded a journalist with a British Broadcasting Corp. news team. The U.K. ``will continue to do all we can to support the Saudi authorities in their fight against terrorism,’’ Straw said in a statement on the Foreign Office Web site. ``I utterly condemn the attack on BBC journalists in Riyadh.’’ Simon Cumbers, 36, an Irish freelance journalist working as a cameraman for the BBC and other news organizations, was killed in the shooting yesterday in the southern Riyadh district of al- Suwaydi, the BBC reported. Frank Gardner, 42, the broadcaster’s security correspondent, is being treated in hospital in Riyadh. The two men went to Saudi Arabia last week after terrorists last month killed 22 people, mostly overseas workers, in the oil port of Khobar. Saudi Arabia has blamed the al-Qaeda terrorist network for increased attacks in the kingdom since 43 people died suicide bombings in Riyadh in May and November last year. Sherard Cowper-Coles, the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia visited Gardner in the hospital, the Foreign Office statement said. The BBC described Gardner as a leading investigator of the al-Qaeda network. He suffered a number of gunshot wounds, the BBC said, citing Richard Sambrook, its director of news. ``I have nothing buy admiration for journalists like Mr. Gardner, who know their lives are at risk as they go about their work,’’ Straw said, according to the statement. The gunmen escaped after the shooting, Reuters said, citing unidentified Saudi security officials. The Riyadh district has been the center of raids against suspected al-Qaeda terrorists. Saudi Arabia is facing an ``active terrorist campaign,’’ Cowper-Coles said after the Khobar attack, adding that further terrorist incidents are to be expected. |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #4 What, and no-one's throwing rocks at him? Come on... |
| Posted by: Howard Uk 2004-06-08 4:17:56 AM |
| #3 Here's a picture of Gardner lying in the street bleeding pleading with the Saudi onlookers to "Help me, I'm a Muslim!"... via LGF... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-07 8:39:43 PM |
| #2 Ah, there's nothing like waking up to a little red-on-red fighting. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-06-07 9:43:00 AM |
| #1 Alert to all Brit troops in Basra: - upon sight of Al-Jizz film crews, fix bayonets and get thrusting. |
| Posted by: Howard Uk 2004-06-07 8:59:58 AM |
