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To: Janice Shell who wrote (86668)	5/9/2004 10:41:06 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

That was my take on your post to me. What's the matter? You go around giving your opinion everywhere. I had given you a detailed post and you gave your flip answer. You can give it but you can't take it.

To: Janice Shell who wrote (86668)	5/9/2004 11:59:04 PM
From: SI Dave	Respond to of 122087

Maybe we should invite EV here to start posting religious rhetoric, and the thread can be officially pronounced DOA. That's about all that's lacking now..

To: Janice Shell who wrote (86668)	5/10/2004 3:36:40 AM
From: M0NEYMADE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

Haven't heard a peep from the media on this Story... (it would probably send some westerners home packing, this will NEVER end) wireservice.wired.com YANBU, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Workers at a petrochemical site used their passes to access the complex and kill five Western engineers in a shooting spree in the Saudi oil city of Yanbu on Saturday, the Interior Ministry said. Shouting "God is Greatest" the gunmen killed two Americans, two Britons and an Australian working for the Swiss-based ABB Lummus in the Red Sea city, the first attack on an oil facility in the world's largest oil exporter. Saudi ambassador to Britain Prince Turki al-Faisal said he thought Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda was behind the attack. There were reports a sixth man was shot near a hotel and his body dragged through the town. With Saturday's attack, militants appear to have expanded their targets to include vital economic facilities in the kingdom, which until now has seen a spate of bombings on residential compounds and government security symbols. "Three employees entered the site, taking advantage of their passes and allowing a fourth accomplice to enter through the emergency gate. They opened fire at offices, using various weapons and fled the spot to a residential complex with the aim of attacking it," a ministry official said in a statement. Police chased the four militants through residential areas and guards at a residential compound opened fire on them, forcing them to retreat. They then exchanged fire with police in several spots. Three of the militants were killed and the fourth was wounded and died later. The ministry did not name the four. It said the attack on the ABB engineers also wounded three others -- a Pakistani, an American and a Canadian. One national guard died in the clashes. Eight others and 10 policemen were wounded. Other Saudi officials said two Saudi officers were killed. An oil official said the gunmen shouted "God is Greatest" as they fired. The term is often used by Qaeda militants and other Jihadists. SHOOTING SPREE But Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Abdullah said "Zionists' hands" were behind Saturday's attacks. Local witnesses said militants first shot dead a Western man as he was leaving his compound near the Holiday Inn hotel in Yanbu, tied his body to their car and dragged it into the streets. His nationality was not known. Other reports said the body belonged to one of the five engineers. None of the embassies could confirm the report. Militants also shot at U.S. fast food chain McDonald's during the rampage in Yanbu, 250 km (160 miles) north of Jeddah, which had been largely unaffected by violence. An ABB Lummus spokesman said two other Americans were wounded in Yanbu, which along with the port of Jubail is home to much of Saudi's oil refining and petrochemical industries. ABB Lummus is carrying out an upgrading project for Saudi petrochemical firm YANPET, jointly owned by U.S. Exxon Mobil and Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC). A Western resident said gunmen also threw a pipebomb at the city's international school. One employee was slightly injured. Last year, a series of suicide bombings on residential compounds in Riyadh killed 50, including nine Americans, in attacks blamed on al Qaeda. Saudi Arabia has been battling a year-long wave of Islamist militancy, targeting mainly foreigners. A suicide bomber last month killed five people at a security building in Riyadh in the first major attack on a government target. Fifteen of the 19 men who carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities were from Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden has threatened to carry out attacks to destabilize the kingdom, which militants accuse of allying itself with the United States. A purported audio tape by a senior al Qaeda leader in the kingdom, Abdulaziz al-Muqrin, has vowed to carry out "fierce" attacks against U.S. interests. The State Department condemned the attack and said Washington was working with the Saudis to determine the facts. Washington, citing fresh signals of possible attacks on Western interests, last month ordered non-essential diplomats out of Saudi Arabia and said other Americans should leave. Anger has ratcheted up against the United States in the Muslim world following the U.S.-led war on Iraq and its support for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plans to keep part of the West Bank and bar the return of Palestinian refugees to what is now Israel. (Additional reporting by Dominic Evans and Peg Mackey)