Arabic News Weekly Edition for Saudi Arabia, 5/31/2004
Weekly Edition, Saudi Arabia - Week of May 31, 2004
- Saudi al-Ifta committee calls for cooperation in fighting terrorism; Saudi police exchanges fire with gunmen in Jeddah
Security sources said that Saudi Arabia's police exchanged fire with gunmen suspected to be extremists Islamists today early morning in Jeddah city which overlooks the Red Sea and that the police are still chasing several cars trying to cordon them. Saudi Arabia, Politics, 6/5/2004 - Elyawer makes assurances on crown Abdullah's good health Iraq-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 6/5/2004
- One Saudi attacks Americans in Riyadh, gunmen killed in al-Taif
Western diplomats and witnesses said that one Saudi opened fire yesterday morning at a group of Americans in front of a residential complex to the south of the Saudi capital Riyadh but could not know more details and whether the incident results in vitims or not. Saudi Arabia, Local, 6/3/2004 - Several hostages killed in a breaking in operation in al-Khubar
News reports quoted a Saudi Arabian security sources as saying that the armed men who are suspected on being members in al-Qaida organization killed several hostages after the Saudi security forces broke into the building where they were holding some 50 foreign hostages in al-Khubar city. Saudi Arabia, Local, 6/1/2004 - Some 22 persons killed in the attacks of al-Khubar, three gunmen fled Saudi Arabia, Local, 6/1/2004