Suicide strike leaves 11 dead says this story, PTI[ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 09, 2003 08:33:04 PM ]

The state-run official news Agency SPA quoting the interior ministry said that the dead included Saudis, Lebanese, Sudanese and Egyptians.

The Saudi Interior ministry said that all but 25 of the 122 injured had been discharged from hospitals by noon.

Unspecified number of gunmen in an explosive-laden car fired at the guards and broke into the fortified compound close to the royal palace and the diplomatic quarters housing foreign embassies triggering at least three blasts in less than a minute around 2.00 am, hours after US closed its diplomatic missions in the kingdom following "credible" intelligence reports that al-Qaeda might strike.

re:What Saudis think of al-Qaeda:

Look at the people Reuters quotes:a businessman,a "moderate Islamist",a newspaper editor.

They may be right,of course,but they're certainly not representative of the average Saudi.

This could be the beginning of the end for those Islamic extremists though.
If the moderates are starting to get pee'd off at those Extremists, maybe just maybe The mid east will clean its- self up. This could be the beginning of something good.

Boy, those saudis must be really worried.

They have had good times between the 70s & the 90s. In that time they did build up their country but still used all external contractors to run it.

For example, over 40% of their health service is run by externals as is their oil industry.

In this time they didn't allow their women to do jobs and didn't bother to educate or train their locals to any great extent, "we'll buy in the expertise and we will always be able to do so for the foreseeable future".

So, now when alll the externals leave because the extremists make life too difficult, it will be interesting to see how they cope.

Not very well will be the answer, ....but they have brought it on themselves.

OnlyNow, I have two good friends who worked in Riyahd as VERY highly paid eye specialists back in the 90's. They used all that money to get the hell out of there every vacation they got, but finally left because of the stress on the female of the pair. As soon as she stepped out of the hospital doors, her life sucked. Well, at least she got some repect 8 hours a day, which is 8 hours more than the rest of the women in KSA get in their entire lives.

Could someone tell me why so many left-leaning feminists support Islamism while it wishes subjugates half the population? Why aren't the human rights people ALL OVER these backward countries 24/7?

"Why aren't the human rights people ALL OVER these backward countries 24/7?"

Because:

1. The imperialist Amerikkkans are the Great Satan.

2. They don't want to engage in cultural imperialism.

3. Liberty is a Western construct of the bourgeoisie.

4. The "All My Children" marathon is about to start, and they don't want to miss the Rachel - Jean-Paul scene on the beach.

MG

Well, then they shouldn't be all worried about what horrible things are being foisted upon the innocents at GITMO, should they? We're just depriving those people of a western construct.

Hypocrisy seems to be the answer to the question, but I knew that all along.

Dani- a lot of good values that exist in a Western culture do exist and have its counterpart in other civilization/culture as well and in many cases, there is no need to import a 'western' practice into the culture, other than reviving those currently-in-the-hiding practice in the local culture.

Dani Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are inalienable rights, whether they be labelled 'Western' in a legitimate fashion is questionable. They are Natural Rights. We all have them. THAT INCLUDES WOMEN, no matter what Islam has to say in that regard, religiously OR in the social order. Human Rights groups are not all over these States because if they were all over them, they would be dead all over them. You cannot blame Human Rights for turning a blind eye to those who would ignore International Law and Human Rights. If Islam is going to treat women as chatel that is the problem of Islam, and Muslims gain nothing by pointing their collective finger at the West. To pay lip service to Human Rights in the geopolitical arena and to ignore them on every other level is to hypocritically ask not only those inside but those outside to agree that such treatment is proper. It is not proper. Islam resolves its own hypocrisy or it dies.

Islam cannot implode fast enough for this cowboy. I am sick to NICing death of all this Religion of Peace crap. Religion of Pedophiles is more like it. Nothing redeemable in the cult to my eyes.

All you islmopologists, waah, waah, waah. To call a spade a spade is not necessarily racist. The truth hurts sometimes, but that doesn't make a spade a hoe. Get over the fact that there is great evil in today's islam.

Dhimmi,

Islam is a SATANIC cult and that

is the problem!

Hmmm. As long as the Wahabi 'ThoughtPolice' continue to demand that youth 'think like they ought' instead of 'as they will', the House of Saud has problems. BIG. The two holiests sights in Islam are where? We'll certainly see what the Radicals are going to have to say about this, won't we?

posting here appears to be a good way to become a terrorist target.

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