Muslims kill again in Saudi Arabia

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Posted by Dopey on Feb-28-2007 00:14:

Muslims kill again in Saudi Arabia

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/27/news/saudi.php

French teenager becomes 4th to die from Saudi attack
By Hassan M. Fattah
Published: February 27, 2007

DUBAI: The death toll from the attack Monday on French expatriates in Saudi Arabia rose after a teenager who was in critical condition succumbed to his wounds Tuesday, Saudi and French official said. The young man was the fourth victim in one of the worst attacks on Westerners in Saudi Arabia since a security crackdown began there three years ago.

The young man, whom doctors at the King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Medina identified only as Mubarak, the 17- year old Muslim son of a French-Morrocan woman, died from a bullet wound to his shoulder, hospital officials said.

His father, who had converted to Islam last year, was also killed in the attack.

French policy is not to release the identities of the victims in a terrorist act, a representative with the French Foreign Ministry said. But colleagues identified two of the men as engineers at Schneider Electric in Riyadh, and the third man as a schoolteacher at the French school in Riyadh.

Two of the men were pronounced dead on the scene Monday, and another died in the hospital later in the day, the Interior Ministry said.

Muslim worshippers on Tuesday night prayed over the bodies of the two Muslim victims at the Mosque of the Prophet, where the Prophet Muhammad is buried in the holy city of Medina. All the bodies will be returned to Riyadh and later to France unless the families request that they be buried in Saudi Arabia, the French official said.

The men were among a group of French and Belgian expatriates who had been visiting historic sites and camping in Saudi Arabia's scenic northwestern desert for several days, a colleague and a representative of the French Foreign Ministry said.

Part of the group had left for Riyadh early Monday, the official said, but the eight Frenchmen stayed behind and were believed to be searching for remnants of the old Hijaz railroad, which once linked the Arabian Peninsula to Istanbul.

A Saudi security official said gunmen happened upon the group taking a break by the side of the road. The gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons, aiming only at the men, he said.

The Saudi daily Al Wattan, quoting a witness, said that three gunmen with covered faces had separated the men from the women and children, then opened fire on the men, execution-style.

Still, the authorities would not call the attack a terrorist incident, pending further investigation. A security official said, however, that the list of likely suspects was being narrowed.

"If it is Al Qaeda, then we know who they are," he said.

Security officials continued a manhunt for the suspects Tuesday, combing through the vast northwestern desert for any traces of the men.

The attack offered a stark reminder of the risks many Western expatriates living in Saudi Arabia still face at a time when many have grown confident that the wave of terrorism is under control and that life is returning to normal.

"The Saudis think this is an attack on the royals because they can't get at the them, and expats think that it's an attack on them," said Joy McNab, a British citizen who has lived in Saudi Arabia for 23 years. "I guess they're going to stop everyone from going there for the time being," she said, referring to Madain Saleh, Nabatean ruins the group had been visiting.

Since May 2003, a wave of Qaeda-led attacks, initially against foreigners in Saudi Arabia and later against government assets and officials, has sought to topple the U.S.-backed monarchy with suicide bombings and gun attacks.

Security officials have continued to make arrests, raid militant hideouts and strengthen defenses. That has turned some parts of Saudi Arabia's cities into virtual fortresses surrounded by concrete blast walls and barriers. Late last year, militants led a failed attack against the Abqaiq oil facility in the eastern part of the country, but were thwarted when guards opened fire at them.

"Muslim worshippers on Tuesday night prayed over the bodies of the two Muslim victims"

Yea fuck the non-Muslim victims We Muslims must love and pray for all humankind.