Blast(s?) in Riyadh kill many people.
clickAl Qaeda's work?
This guy seems to think so.
Fox is reporting that the body count is not ~90, not ~20 as originally reported. Very bad.
It's still a breaking story, so for now if we could keep the politics out and news updates in that would be fantastic.
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Khobar Towers AFB. November 1995. 19 dead Americans.
Originally posted by Towel
If all they can do is to blow things up in their own country, that's the next-best sign that we're winning. This sounds like their biannual major attack - and if so, fine. We can live with a few buildings in Riyadh getting blown up every few years.
You seem to be misunderstanding the situation.
The situation in SA makes a few things rather clear. Al-Queda's command structure is in much better condition than previously believed. They are able to plan things in secret, respond to police pressure and even severe disruption of their cells and still turn around and carry out their attacks. A large number of the cell members were in police custody as late as last week. They managed to attack their captors, escape from jail, slip underground, obtain more supplies and carry out their attacks......In 7 days
And in the end, the security of the leadership that ordered the attack was not comprimised.
Furthermore, all signs currently point to this being the tip of the iceberg w/regard to future attacks in Saudi Arabia.
The fact they have not chosen to attack the U.S does not bode well for us. It would be well-within their capabilities for them to do something like Monday's attack here. They have simply decided to wait. They are very paitent people and are willing to go without attacking for as long as it takes to prepare something that lives up to everyone's expectations.
Originally posted by Scott
Wait wait wait, we pulled our troops out of SA. Shouldn't the terror have stopped?
Yes, but terror knows no logic.....
Originally posted by Scott
Wait wait wait, we pulled our troops out of SA. Shouldn't the terror have stopped?
The attacks were apparently aimed at places where Americans were. And Powell is there.
Originally posted by DoctorGonzo
Furthermore, all signs currently point to this being the tip of the iceberg w/regard to future attacks in Saudi Arabia.
The fact they have not chosen to attack the U.S does not bode well for us. It would be well-within their capabilities for them to do something like Monday's attack here. They have simply decided to wait. They are very paitent people and are willing to go without attacking for as long as it takes to prepare something that lives up to everyone's expectations.
Time will tell. But this their first major attack since 9/11, and it shows something of a regression in their capabilities. Neither of us can read their minds, but for their post-9/11 debut they hit a softish target (civilian) at a softish time (post-Iraq) within their base of operations (Saudi Arabia). More a statement of weakness ("Hey! Don't forget us! Over here!") than strength ("You can't stop us from doing what we want, where we want, when we want!").
As an aside, I'll be as patient as they want in waiting for them to "prepare something that lives up to everyone's expectations". Again, we can't read minds, but if it's really so hard for them to repeat something on the 9/11 scale, that means we're not doing too badly.
...a few out of the hundreds of reasons that millions of protesters hit the streets in the lead up to the war on Iraq. It didn't take all that long either, did it?
Now they assigned a color to a day again, as if that makes us somehow safer? What do we do when it goes back to yellow again? We can all relax again and be off our guard, eh?
Another attack on the US mainland... and Ashcroft and Co. will be rubbing their hands together.
1) Various nuclear facilities have been looted
2) You could get what you wanted off a poor ex USSR republic or Pakistani market without going to Saddam (who killed people who prayed too hard) anyway
3) Saddam didn't any have any nuclear bombs
4) There is no WMD to found in Iraq
5) Saddam hated anyone against him or that could have endangered him, like al Qaeda
6) Mubarak was RIGHT and this has recruited many more militants
7) The Iraqis, Arabs and Muslims hate us more every day
8) Bombs are going off all over the world. The war on terror is a joke and will never, ever work.
No Americans.
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Harald:
Would anyone care now to step up and say the war in Iraq did anything to prevent terror?
Did someone here say it did?
I don't exercise to make my teeth whiter.
Originally posted by groverat
It looks like the final #s for the Riyadh bombing are ~30 killed total. <80 for the Riyadh and Morocco attacks combined.
No Americans.
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Harald:
Did someone here say it did?
I don't exercise to make my teeth whiter.
Now THAT's what I call revisionist history.
Remind me what THE DAMN POINT OF THE WAR WAS?
Now THAT's what I call revisionist history.
Remind me what THE DAMN POINT OF THE WAR WAS?
WoMD
oil
Humanitarian crisis re: Hussein & sanctions
As far as al Qaeda being THE POINT of the war... I don't remember it being THE POINT. Ever.
Originally posted by Anders the White
Besides I don´t think New ever said Al Quada or prevention of terror was THE stated reason for war. Its just that the reasonS for war seems to become hollow one by one.
The war was always, always, always
part of the war on terror.