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To: Gord Bolton who wrote (77153)	9/22/2001 7:20:46 PM
From: Gord Bolton	Respond to of 116845

Khobar Indictments Strain Saudi-US Relations DEBKAfile Special Report, June 25, 2001 25 June: The Saudis are taking up the cudgel for their affronted sovereignty against a 46-count indictment issued by the US federal grand jury on June 21, five years after the truck bombing at the Khobar Towers apartment building in Dahran, Saudi Arabia, that killed 10 American airmen and wounded nearly 400 in 1996. The indictments cite 13 Saudi citizens and a Lebanese man, said to be members of the anti-American “Saudi Hizballah” (or Hizballah Hijaz) dedicated to driving Americans out of the kingdom.... In May 1996, the Lebanese “John Doe” arrived in Saudi Arabia. Not much is known about him except that he belonged to the Lebanese Hizballah and was a truck-bomb expert. He may also have brought with him forged Iranian passports to give the cell members freedom of movement. Large quantities of explosive materials, detonators and stopwatches began flowing to Qatif at this time, although the indictment does not specify how it was smuggled in. The materials were cached in hiding places near the Khobar Towers. On the evening of June 25, 1996,when most of the American airmen were at home with their families, the team parked a tanker filled with gasoline and explosives outside the housing complex and escaped the scene in a second other vehicle. A few minutes later, a colossal blast tore the entire frontage off the high-rise living quarters, imploding on the people and objects inside the apartments. Within seconds, the vacuum filled with burning fuel. The effect was devastating. The unnamed Lebanese was certainly a master of his craft. The 5,000-pound bomb has been described as larger than the one that destroyed the Oklahoma city federal building in 1995, for which Timothy McVeigh was executed earlier this month, and more than twice as powerful as the one the Hizballah used to blow up US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, killing close to 300 men. debka.com