| Reporting from on-line
sources as of: 12:00pm (ET), May 13, 2003
This special supplement to the Saudi-US Relations Information
Service Newsletter provides a survey of reporting on last night's
terrorist attacks against Western compounds in Riyadh. The
casualty figures are changing at this hour and are likely to be
amended as additional information is compiled.
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Today's attacks in Saudi Arabia, the
ruthless murder of Americans and other citizens reminds us
the war on terror continues. My thoughts and prayers
and those of our fellow citizens are with the families of
the victims in Saudi Arabia. We pray for them.
We mourn the loss of life. These despicable acts were
committed by killers whose only faith is hate. The United
States will find the killers and they will learn the meaning
of American justice.
President George W. Bush
May 13, 2003
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BOMBINGS
KILL 20 IN SAUDI CAPITAL
Explosions
at three housing compounds here late last night killed 20 people,
including at least seven Americans, the official Saudi press agency
announced today. The blasts came just hours before Secretary of State
Colin L. Powell arrived here to discuss Middle East peace efforts and
the war against terrorism.
BOMBS
ROCK RIYADH
Four explosions rocked the national
capital [May 12], and witnesses told Arab News that many people were
wounded. According to Al-Arabiya television channel, security forces
exchanged fire with the terrorists inside the compound.
POWELL,
IN RIYADH, SEES SIGNS OF AL QAEDA IN SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS
A Saudi official said [May 13] that 20 people, including seven
Americans, were killed in three suicide attacks that struck
residential compounds and a business in the Saudi capital on Monday
night.
BOMBS
RIP WESTERN COMPOUNDS IN RIYADH
Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz, the Interior Minister, in an
exclusive interview with Al-Riyadh Arabic newspaper, sister
publication of Riyadh Daily, said "people whose names were
announced last Wednesday stand behind the three explosions that hit
Riyadh Monday."
TWENTY
DEAD AND MANY INJURED IN TERRORIST EXPLOSIONS IN RIYADH
The
Interior Ministry has given out details of the three explosions that
took place in Riyadh last night, saying the death toll has reached 20,
and that 194 people had been injured, although most of the injuries
are minor.
WESTERN
TARGETS BOMBED IN RIYADH
Explosions
hit a U.S.-Saudi business and three housing compounds used by U.S. and
other foreign residents Monday night and early today in Riyadh, the
capital of Saudi Arabia, hours before Secretary of State Colin L.
Powell was to arrive there to discuss Middle East peace efforts and
the war against terrorism, according to reports from the kingdom.
SON
OF RIYADH DEPUTY GOVERNOR KILLED IN BOMBING
A son of Riyadh's deputy governor Abdullah al-Blaihed was among
several people killed in the overnight suicide bomb attack on the Al-Hamra
expatriate compound in the Saudi capital, residents said [May 13].
POWELL
SAYS MANY NON-AMERICANS ALSO DEAD IN RIYADH BOMBINGS
Many other foreigners were killed in three suicide bombings, which
targeted expatriate housing in Riyadh overnight.
AL
QAEDA 'PRIME SUSPECT' OVER BLASTS
Terror group al-Qaeda is the prime
suspect after bombs in Saudi Arabia left at least 29 people dead, UK
Foreign Office minister Mike O'Brien has said.
EXPATRIATES'
HORROR AND FEAR
Expatriates in Saudi Arabia have been
telling the BBC about the horror of witnessing the bomb attacks - and
their fears about life in the Saudi capital.
RIYADH
EYEWITNESS: 'MASSIVE EXPLOSION'
John, a Scottish man working in
Riyadh, told the BBC World Service program The World Today, what he
saw when explosions went off in Riyadh on Monday night.
TROUBLE
IN THE HOUSE OF SAUD
For the Saudi princes, the timing of
the attacks on foreigners in Riyadh is especially painful.
SAUDI
ARABIA'S FOREIGN WORKFORCE
Foreign workers have been a key element in Saudi Arabia's economy
since the earliest days of the state's 71-year existence.
CHRONOLOGY:
ATTACKS ON WESTERNERS IN SAUDI ARABIA
A
series of "extremely powerful" blasts rocked Riyadh, setting
ablaze three residential compounds housing a number of Westerners. The
following is a chronology of attacks on Westerners in the kingdom
since 1995.
SAUDI
ATTACKS: WHAT HAPPENED
The series of bomb attacks in the
Saudi capital Riyadh on Monday were all targeted at luxury compounds
housing foreign nationals.
Q&A:
SAUDI TERROR ATTACKS
Suicide bombers have carried out a
series of attacks on foreign targets in the Saudi Arabian capital,
Riyadh. The bombings came a few hours before a visit to the city
by US Secretary of State Colin Powell. The BBC's security
correspondent, Frank Gardner, looks at the implications of the
attacks.
ANALYSIS:
SAUDI ARABIA UNDER FIRE
Saudi Arabia's refusal openly to host
US troops during the Iraq war and the subsequent decision to withdraw
nearly all US military personnel from the kingdom was meant to
neutralise the chief complaint of radical Islamic groups, including
al-Qaeda.
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