Explosion at Theatre Wounds Six in Qatar
By Odai Sirri DOHA (Reuters) - An explosion at a small theater near a British school in Qatar wounded six people attending a play on Saturday, a Qatari official said. "There was an explosion in the cafeteria inside the theater building. Six people, Arabs and foreigners, were slightly wounded and are being treated in hospital," Brigadier General Ahmad al-Hayki of the Qatari Interior Ministry told Qatar-based satellite television Al Jazeera. "We are still investigating the cause of the blast," he said, declining to speculate on whether it had been an accident or an attack. Al Qaeda militants have staged attacks in neighboring Saudi Arabia and Kuwait but Qatar, a key U.S. ally, has seen no Islamist violence. Qatar hosts the U.S. military's Central Command and was a launch pad for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (news <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/nm/ts_nm/qatar_blast_dc/14627173/*h ttp:/news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22Iraq%22&c=&n= 20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw> - web <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/nm/ts_nm/qatar_blast_dc/14627173/*h ttp:/search.yahoo.com/search?fr=web-storylinks&p=Iraq> sites) which began two years ago on Sunday. An Al Jazeera correspondent on the scene said around 100 people had been inside the one-storey Doha Players theater in the Qatari capital, Doha. A security guard at the British school told Reuters the blast shattered several windows in the school, which was closed at the time, and that a ceiling collapsed in an auditorium. He said around 40 teachers who live in the school compound were evacuated but that no one was hurt. "There has been an explosion opposite the Doha English Speaking School," a spokesman for the British Foreign Office in London said. "We have staff that are on their way there now to see if there are any casualties or what casualties there are. But they haven't had any reports on the casualties at this stage." A Reuters witness said windows of nearby cars had been blown out by the force of the blast. Firefighters earlier put out a blaze. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
