posted on Nov, 10 2003 @ 02:15 PM
This just in. Don't know if anyone's seen it yet. Officials sure do know a lot then NOT know how to stop it...
US officials warn of more terror attacks
AMERICAN officials today warned of the threat of further terrorist bomb attacks like the one which killed at least 17 people at a residential compound
in the Saudi capital Riyadh at the weekend.
The suicide car bomb on Saturday night was being seen as proof the al-Qaida terror network is even willing to shed the blood of Muslims in its
campaign to bring down the Saudi royal family.
"It�s no longer an issue of terrorism for them," said Saudi analyst Dawood al-Shirian. "It�s become a war on the regime, a war to turn the country
into a new Afghanistan ruled by a Saudi-style Taliban."
After searching through rubble in a residential compound, a Saudi official late last night said six more bodies had been found, raising the death toll
to 17, including five children. At least 13 were Arabs, with the others as yet unidentified, the Interior Ministry official said.
Some 122 people were injured, most of them Arabs as well.
The blasts came around midnight local time, after gunmen exchanged fire with security guards in a compound of about 200 houses.
Most of the residents were Lebanese, but some Saudis, German, French and Italian families live there as well. The attackers, believed to be in a
police car, then drove into the compound and blew themselves up.
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