Riyadh bombing ( 3 stories...)
captain wardrobe | 21.04.2004 12:00
terror conferance is never mentioned on later newsflashes (story 1)
neither is the fact that two cars were stopped going into Riyadh (story 2)
neither is the fact that two cars were stopped going into Riyadh (story 2)
strange turn of events?
Saudi terror conference opens
From correspondents in Riyadh
April 21, 2004
A CONFERENCE opened today in Saudi Arabia in search of scientific, educational and psychological ways to curb "terrorism", a major issue here with gun battles between Islamic extremists and police.
Crown Prince Abdullah opened the international gathering in the cpaital Riyadh devoted to the theme of "Islam's position on terrorism".
It will examine "Islam's position on violence and extremism and make scientific, educational, psychological and social proposals to fight the phenomenon of terrorism", said the president of Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, which specialises in Islamic studies.
Nearly 120 researchers and scholars from around the world are taking part in the three-day gathering.
Saudi Arabia has been conducting a relentless struggle against Islamic fundamentalists linked to the al-Qaeda network.
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for suicide bombings targeting residential compounds in the capital in May and November of last year which killed 52 people, including eight US citizens.
Last week, the United States ordered non-essential diplomats and US citizens to leave the kingdom following deadly clashes with Islamic militants and the discovery of two car bombs.
"The US government has received recent and credible information indicating that extremists are planning further attacks against US and Western interests," the US State Department said.
The English-language Arab News reported on Friday that two wanted suspects had been arrested in Qasim province, quoting a report on an Islamist website some two days earlier.
Qasim, some 320 kilometres north of Riyadh, is the centre of the kingdom's strict Wahhabi creed and Islamic militants have been known to hide out in the region.
The reported arrests followed the killing of four policemen in separate shooting attacks on the road linking Riyadh and Qasim.
The incidents ended with the discovery of two explosives-laden cars and a third containing other weapons, the interior ministry said.
A day earlier, a Saudi security man and a militant were both killed during a gun battle in Riyadh's eastern Al-Faihaa neighbourhood, the Interior Ministry said.
"The mission of confrontation, which must be tackled with all firmness and force against all aggression aimed at harming our nation and its citizens, is not only the responsibility of security forces but the entire country," Okaz newspaper said on Friday.
Agence France-Presse
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9344996%255E1702,00.html
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April 21st 2004
Possible Riyadh terror plot foiled
RIYADH: Saudi security forces discovered yesterday two cars laden with explosives which were apparently to be used in a terror attack in the capital, a security source said.
“The two car-bombs were to head for Riyadh for apparent use in attacks,” the source told AFP.
The discovery of the two vehicles, which were found in Arrumhiyah village 100 kilometres from Riyadh, brought to five the number of car-bombs seized in Saudi Arabia within the past week.
After the two cars were found, security forces, backed by helicopters, combed the region searching for armed men who managed to flee in a Jeep, residents of the area said.
An interior ministry official announced on Sunday the arrest of eight suspects linked to recent deadly clashes between militants and security forces and the booby-trapping of cars.
Security forces had also seized three vehicles packed with thousands of kilogrammes of explosives, including one they had been searching for since February, the official said, quoted by the state SPA news agency. – AFP
Last update on: 20-4-2004
http://www.bahraintribune.com/ArticleDetail.asp?CategoryId=2&ArticleId=29083
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Strong Blast in Saudi Capital Riyadh
Wed Apr 21, 2004 07:31 AM ET
RIYADH (Reuters) - A strong blast was heard in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh Wednesday, witnesses said, and an Arab television station said it had occurred near a security forces building.
"I heard a strong blast and could seek smoke," a Reuters correspondent said. He said he saw smoke billowing from the al-Murabaa area in downtown Riyadh which houses state television, the information ministry and a security forces building.
Anther witness said the blast rattled windows of her house.
Dubai-based satellite channel Al Arabiya said an explosion was heard near a building housing security forces but gave no details.
Suicide bombings by militants believed to be linked to Saudi-born Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network killed 50 people last year in the kingdom, a key U.S. ally and the world's largest oil exporter.
Suspected Muslim militants killed at least five Saudi policemen last week and security forces defused three car bombs in the capital.
Thursday, the United States ordered its non-essential diplomats out of the Gulf Arab state and told all Americans that they should leave, citing fresh signals of possible attacks on U.S. and Western interests.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4892222
Saudi terror conference opens
From correspondents in Riyadh
April 21, 2004
A CONFERENCE opened today in Saudi Arabia in search of scientific, educational and psychological ways to curb "terrorism", a major issue here with gun battles between Islamic extremists and police.
Crown Prince Abdullah opened the international gathering in the cpaital Riyadh devoted to the theme of "Islam's position on terrorism".
It will examine "Islam's position on violence and extremism and make scientific, educational, psychological and social proposals to fight the phenomenon of terrorism", said the president of Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, which specialises in Islamic studies.
Nearly 120 researchers and scholars from around the world are taking part in the three-day gathering.
Saudi Arabia has been conducting a relentless struggle against Islamic fundamentalists linked to the al-Qaeda network.
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for suicide bombings targeting residential compounds in the capital in May and November of last year which killed 52 people, including eight US citizens.
Last week, the United States ordered non-essential diplomats and US citizens to leave the kingdom following deadly clashes with Islamic militants and the discovery of two car bombs.
"The US government has received recent and credible information indicating that extremists are planning further attacks against US and Western interests," the US State Department said.
The English-language Arab News reported on Friday that two wanted suspects had been arrested in Qasim province, quoting a report on an Islamist website some two days earlier.
Qasim, some 320 kilometres north of Riyadh, is the centre of the kingdom's strict Wahhabi creed and Islamic militants have been known to hide out in the region.
The reported arrests followed the killing of four policemen in separate shooting attacks on the road linking Riyadh and Qasim.
The incidents ended with the discovery of two explosives-laden cars and a third containing other weapons, the interior ministry said.
A day earlier, a Saudi security man and a militant were both killed during a gun battle in Riyadh's eastern Al-Faihaa neighbourhood, the Interior Ministry said.
"The mission of confrontation, which must be tackled with all firmness and force against all aggression aimed at harming our nation and its citizens, is not only the responsibility of security forces but the entire country," Okaz newspaper said on Friday.
Agence France-Presse
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9344996%255E1702,00.html ------------------------------------------------------------
April 21st 2004
Possible Riyadh terror plot foiled
RIYADH: Saudi security forces discovered yesterday two cars laden with explosives which were apparently to be used in a terror attack in the capital, a security source said.
“The two car-bombs were to head for Riyadh for apparent use in attacks,” the source told AFP.
The discovery of the two vehicles, which were found in Arrumhiyah village 100 kilometres from Riyadh, brought to five the number of car-bombs seized in Saudi Arabia within the past week.
After the two cars were found, security forces, backed by helicopters, combed the region searching for armed men who managed to flee in a Jeep, residents of the area said.
An interior ministry official announced on Sunday the arrest of eight suspects linked to recent deadly clashes between militants and security forces and the booby-trapping of cars.
Security forces had also seized three vehicles packed with thousands of kilogrammes of explosives, including one they had been searching for since February, the official said, quoted by the state SPA news agency. – AFP
Last update on: 20-4-2004
http://www.bahraintribune.com/ArticleDetail.asp?CategoryId=2&ArticleId=29083 ------------------------------------------------------------
Strong Blast in Saudi Capital Riyadh
Wed Apr 21, 2004 07:31 AM ET
RIYADH (Reuters) - A strong blast was heard in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh Wednesday, witnesses said, and an Arab television station said it had occurred near a security forces building.
"I heard a strong blast and could seek smoke," a Reuters correspondent said. He said he saw smoke billowing from the al-Murabaa area in downtown Riyadh which houses state television, the information ministry and a security forces building.
Anther witness said the blast rattled windows of her house.
Dubai-based satellite channel Al Arabiya said an explosion was heard near a building housing security forces but gave no details.
Suicide bombings by militants believed to be linked to Saudi-born Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network killed 50 people last year in the kingdom, a key U.S. ally and the world's largest oil exporter.
Suspected Muslim militants killed at least five Saudi policemen last week and security forces defused three car bombs in the capital.
Thursday, the United States ordered its non-essential diplomats out of the Gulf Arab state and told all Americans that they should leave, citing fresh signals of possible attacks on U.S. and Western interests.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4892222
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21.04.2004 12:33
BBC news 24 talk to a 'correspondant in Cairo'
who highlight the above stories!!!!
I've been watching the story break on BBC news 24 for hours...
NO mention of the conference still...
Hey! BBC! give us a job!!!!
pay me a consultants wages ...i'll scan the Saudi papers on the net...
then when i find something you can phone me on a crackly line
and i'll pretend to be in Cairo!!!!!
piece of piss, innit!!!
Captain Wardrobe
A very strange Bush quote
22.04.2004 15:24
"This is a place when they got attacked a year ago that helped change their attitude toward chasing down al Qaeda types within their country. And the attack again today on Riyadh was a reminder that there are people that would like -- I don't want to guess their intentions -- I think they would like to overthrow the ruling government," Bush said.
does he correct himself here?
is he getting ahead of himself?
funny that the attacks should happen on the same day as BASRA bombings...
question: are saudi kings getting jumpy about Iraq, and the
oil price fixing that John Kerry accused the Saudi-Bush clan
question: Did Blair opine to Bush that he was having second thoughts when they met last week in Washington?
BOOM BOOM!
Captain Wardrobe
more 'boom' in N Korea...
22.04.2004 15:41
"Yonhap quoted sources in the Chinese city of Dandong that borders the North as saying the explosion occurred around 1 p.m. (0400 GMT) -- nine hours after Kim's special train was reported to have passed on its way back to Pyongyang after a visit to China.
"The station was destroyed as if hit by a bombardment and debris flew high into the sky," Yonhap said, quoting the unidentified Chinese sources.
The sources said cargo trains carrying gasoline and liquefied petroleum gas collided at Ryonchon station 50 km south of the border.
Yonhap also quoted a senior Defence Ministry official as saying the South's military -- which eavesdrops on North Korea -- had heard about the blast through "intelligence channels directed against the North".
There was no immediate suggestion the blast was anything other than an accident. But the explosion came after Kim met China's new leadership during a rare foreign visit to discuss the North's nuclear weapons plans and tentative economic reforms.
North Korea appears to have cut international telephone lines to the area to prevent information about the explosion getting out, Yonhap added. The North appears to have declared a type of emergency in the area.
surely not Al Queda!!!
will Bush blame them for this too!!!???
remember last week when N Korea
called Cheney ...who is the real president,
a deranged idiot!!!!
North Korea has slammed United States Vice President Dick Cheney as "mentally deranged" and accused him of using his recent Asian tour to incite bitterness toward the communist country.
"It considered Cheney as a mentally deranged person steeped in the inveterate enmity towards the system in the DPRK (North Korea) long ago as he is the boss of the neo-conservative forces in the US," a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said late Sunday.
Mr Cheney visited Japan and South Korea last week to step up support for US forces in Iraq and reaffirmed the demand for complete scrapping of North Korea's nuclear weapons drive.
Mr Cheney also said after talks with Chinese leaders that North Korea could provide nuclear technology to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and warned of a nuclear arms race in Asia if Pyongyang was not stopped.
Captain Wardrobe
oh yeah,
22.04.2004 15:50
Rumsfeld and North Korea
BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY
by Nancy Lynn Nagy
Dear BuzzFlash,
I don't know if you already know this but I thought you would be interested in this little tidbit. Rummy sits on the ABB Board of Directors, which in Jan 2000 sold nuke stuff to N. Korea! I wonder if Bush, knowing this, will retract his Axis of Evil statement to exclude N. Korea? There's money for Rummy in Nukes!
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The Annual General Meeting of ABB Ltd 2000 (LINK)
ABB Ltd held March 16, 2000, its first annual general meeting of shareholders since the creation of the single-class ABB Ltd share.
Shareholders approved the proposal of the Board of Directors to increase the dividend per share to Sfr. 3.00 from Sfr. 2.47 the year before, payable as of March 23, 2000. Re-elected to the Board were Percy Barnevik, Gerhard Cromme, Jürgen Dormann, Martin Ebner, Robert Jeker, Göran Lindahl, Agostino Rocca, Donald Rumsfeld, Edwin Somm, Peter Sutherland and Jacob Wallenberg. The Board intends to re-elect Barnevik as Chairman and Jeker as Vice Chairman.
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ABB to deliver systems, equipment to North Korean nuclear plants (LINK)
US$ 200 million in orders awarded under multi-government framework agreement
Zurich, Switzerland, January 20, 2000 –
ABB, the global technology group, said today it has signed contracts to deliver equipment and services for two nuclear power stations at Kumho, on the east coast of North Korea. The contracts, with a value of US$ 200 million, were awarded by HANJUNG (Korea Heavy Industries and Construction Co. Ltd.) and KOPEC (Korea Power Engineering Corp.).
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US grants N Korea nuclear funds
April 3, 2002
The US Government has announced that it will release $95m to North Korea as part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear programme, which the US suspected was being misused.
Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea while the reactors are being built.
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Captain Wardrobe