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To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (290359)7/6/2004 4:20:50 PM
From: Tom Swift  Respond to of 436258
 
Man Tries to Rob Bank ATM with Bulldozer

Tue Jul 6, 9:07 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!


JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A Saudi man posing as a municipal worker used a bulldozer in an inept attempt to rob a bank's automatic teller machine but fled when the police arrived, a local daily reported on Tuesday.



The English-language Arab News said residents of the Red Sea city Jeddah called the police after being woken by the noise of the bulldozer, but did not realize for some time that the man was trying to rob the bank.

"It was disturbing. But it never crossed my mind we were watching a theft," witness Mohammed al-Assiri told Arab News. "With all that's happening this is the last thing we need."

Saudi Arabia has been rocked by a wave of shooting and bomb attacks attributed to al Qaeda in the past year, in which up to 85 police and civilians, many of them foreigners, have been killed.