From CNN: Gunmen have attacked an oil company compound in eastern Saudi Arabia, killing at least six people, including foreigners, and taking a number of hostages, according to informed sources and officials. The attackers took the unspecified number of hostages after barricading themselves into at least one building in the city of Khobar on Saturday, the sources said. The attackers released five Lebanese or American hostages, Lebanese diplomats told CNN, but police believe they are holding others, the sources said. A senior Saudi Interior Ministry official said the attackers were on a list of wanted militants, many of whom had been linked to al Qaeda. He also said it was believed they are under direction of people based outside Saudi Arabia.
5/29/2004
About Me
- Name: Josh Eidelson
- Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
Write
Donate
Links
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Prospect
- American Rights At Work
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Campus Progress
- Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Change to Win
- Daily Kos
- David Sirota
- Democracy for America
- Eschaton
- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
- Finnegan's Wake
- Greg Palast
- Hyperempathic Politics
- Human Rights Watch
- Immigrant Worker Freedom Rides
- In All My Years
- IndyMedia
- Jewish Labor Committee
- Kensington Welfare Rights Union
- Labour Start
- Left in the West
- Mah Rabu
- MeretzUSA
- Mother Jones
- MoveOn
- MyDD
- National Interfaith Committeee for Worker Justice
- Nathan Newman
- The Nation
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- New Israel Fund
- Progressive States Network
- Progressive Patriots Fund
- Progressive Review
- The Reaction
- SNAPNotes
- Talking Points Memo
- TPM Cafe
- Wal-Mart Watch
- Weapons of Class Instruction
- Working Life
Previous Posts
- Five protestors shot dead in Lebanon: At least ...
- Lest we should take increased terror warnings seri...
- After earlier rumors that a scientist highly criti...
- My third Undernews post is up here. It's a much-e...
- Nathan Newman on Abu Ghraib, government employees,...
- Phoebe considers a new report from the Education T...
- Human Rights Watch calls for Chile's Supreme Court...
- Mother Jones' Michael Sherer on the latest develop...
- Once again, the Bush administration is stymied in ...
- Wal-Mart Watch: Wal-Mart wins approval for one Ch...
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home