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British cyclist "deliberately run down" in Saudi Arabia |
2010-03-03 |
John Currie, who worked for BAE Systems – formerly British Aerospace – is believed to have been one four cyclists who started being "cut up" by local youths in two cars on a main road on the outskirts of Riyadh, the Saudi capital. Initially, it is understood that one of the cars clipped a cyclist causing him to fall off his bike. Then, however, one of the drivers is alleged to have turned around and deliberately ploughed his car into the cyclists. Mr Currie, 54, a human resources worker, is said to have been smashed against the vehicle's windscreen in the incident on Thursday, and later died from his serious injuries. His widow, Pauline, was returning to Britain this weekend. The couple, from Chester, Cheshire, are believed to have two grown-up children. Mr Currie's body will be flown home for a funeral service. In the past 15 years, there have been a number of terrorist attacks on British and other western nationals in Saudi Arabia by Muslim extremists. Several westerners have been killed – and even more injured – in a series of bombs and gun attacks. Radicals are angry that US and British oil companies and their staff are operating on Saudi soil. Except these wasn't your organized "terrorists". These were run of the mill Saudis exhorted from birth to hate and subjugate or murder the infidels and saw a couple of vulnerable, unsubjugated infidels on the side of the road. |
Posted by:ed |
#9 What's with these last two comments. It's the latest fashion in spam, Whiskey Mike. For some reason this little website has been under pretty heavy attack lately ...I'm on the wrong computer, or I'd poop list the IP myself. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2010-03-03 18:51 |
#8 What's with these last two comments. Not the first time I've noticed this gibberish. |
Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2010-03-03 16:25 |
#7 8:00 a.m. or 3:00 p.m. 1-808-0911 Crime Stop : $1,000 American : Yank Money : Yyyeah ! - Aussie Rangrettes : tell : Officer : Ohair |
Posted by: Omnic $ Nuda donna gregalis 2010-03-03 16:22 |
#6 Hope Nowehere For Cutting : Trees : Malicious : Vicious : Property Damage : Honomu ! Call : 1-808-0911 ! Tomorrow : 8;00 a.m. or 3p.m. ! |
Posted by: Omnic $ Nuda donna gregalis 2010-03-03 16:17 |
#5 Reminds me of when we lived in Cairo and a 15 yr old male grabbed my wif'es breast in broad daylight and when I caught up to him and slapped him pretty hard, his coach said, "He couldn't have done such a thing". |
Posted by: HammerHead 2010-03-03 15:17 |
#4 It could be cyclist rather than British. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-03 13:49 |
#3 Its all about education wheteher at school or the local mosque! Arabs are brought up to hate the indidel from a young age! |
Posted by: Paul2 2010-03-03 12:46 |
#2 Colour me not shocked that the BBC chooses to ignore this inconvenient story. |
Posted by: Bulldog 2010-03-03 12:33 |
#1 Let's see whether the thugs are punished by the authorities. Or, more likely, feted.... |
Posted by: lex 2010-03-03 11:03 |