[Excerpt: The car was forced down a road leading to a tunnel and blew up, wounding several people, the spokesman said......The explosion occurred between the Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of Interior, ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour Turki told CNN......Local television stations reported a third blast more than an hour later in the Jazirah district of Riyadh.]
http://64.236.16.116/2004/WORLD/meast/12/29/saudi.blast/index.html Blasts rock Saudi capital Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Posted: 3:07 PM EST (2007 GMT) RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- At least two explosions rocked the Saudi capital Wednesday night, wounding several people, authorities said. At 8:30 p.m. (12:30 p.m. ET), a car was fired upon as it attempted to drive through a security checkpoint outside the Interior Ministry, a spokesman for the Ministry of Information said. The car was forced down a road leading to a tunnel and blew up, wounding several people, the spokesman said. The explosion occurred between the Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of Interior, ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour Turki told CNN. A source who said he was in the municipality building near the Interior Ministry said automatic gunfire preceded the explosion. A person on the ninth floor of the municipality building was slightly wounded by flying debris, the source said. About three minutes later, a second car bomb detonated about 6 miles (10 kilometers) away, east of the capital, Turki told CNN. It was not clear whether anyone was hurt in the second blast, which occurred near where the kingdom's counterterrorism forces are stationed, he said. Turki said he had no information on fatalities or the number of injuries, nor did he know whether anyone was in the cars when they exploded. Local television stations reported a third blast more than an hour later in the Jazirah district of Riyadh. Authorities in Saudi Arabia have been battling terrorist activities in recent years, many linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, which opposes the presence of the U.S. military in the oil-rich nation and the ruling Saudi royal family. Earlier this month, a Saudi group linked to al Qaeda claimed responsibility for an attack on the U.S. Consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah in which at least five employees and four attackers were killed. In 2003, two Al Qaeda suicide attacks on Riyadh housing compounds killed 40 people. Reporter Essam Al-Ghalib in Jeddah and CNN.com Arabic's Caroline Faraj in Amman, Jordan, contributed to this report. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/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/
