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(回答先: Re: テロのバックにシオニストがいる！アブドラ王子（ザ コマンド ポスト）英語 投稿者 天地 日時 2004 年 5 月 04 日 16:31:00)
Terrorist attacks are on the rise in Saudi Arabia despite tight security
Crown Prince: ‘Zionism’ behind Yanbu attack
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=9859
Saudi de facto ruler vows to crush to crush Islamic extremists with iron fist after shooting rampage.
YANBU, Saudi Arabia - The body of one of five Westerners killed in a shooting rampage in the Saudi port of Yanbu was stripped naked and dragged behind the gunmen's getaway car, witnesses and press reports said Sunday.
Saudi Arabia's de facto leader vowed to use an iron fist to crush Islamic extremists after Saturday's attack on a petrochemical plant in the Red Sea port which killed two Americans, two Britons, an Australian and a Saudi national.
Four of the attackers and one security agent were also killed in a shootout. One of the assailants was reported to be Abdullah Saud Abu Nayan As-Subayi who is on a list of the kingdom's 26 most wanted terror suspects.
Swiss-Swedish engineering company ABB, who employed the killed Westerners, said it is evacuating all international staff and their families from Yanbu.
"I saw three armed men pull a victim close to my school and shout 'Help your brothers in Fallujah (Iraq). Jihad! Jihad! God is great!" said a local student. Another witness added: "The American was mutilated."
The English-language Saudi Gazette reported on its website on Sunday that "a Westerner was kidnapped, stripped naked, tied to a vehicle, and dragged along the road as the attackers made their getaway".
It also ran a photograph of a mutilated body lying in a street before a crowd of onlookers.
"Black Saturday in Yanbu" was the headline on the website of another English-language newspaper the Arab News, quoting witnesses as saying the body was dragged for three kilometres (two miles). One Filipino witness said a teenage Saudi was standing on the passenger seat, firing into the air.
However, the official Saudi news agency SPA denied the reports.
Reports that "the bodies of two victims of the ugly attack in Yanbu, including one American, were mutilated and dragged through the streets... are totally unfounded," said an authorized source quoted by the agency.
An officer with the Saudi National Guard was also killed and dozens more people wounded in the attack, which came less than two weeks after a car bombing which killed five people and wounded 145 in Riyadh on April 21.
Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, the kingdom's de facto ruler, vowed that the Saudi authorities would crush terrorists, who he said were manipulated by "Zionism."
"Your country is targeted... Zionism is behind what is happening. This has become clear - I wouldn't say 100 percent but 95 percent," SPA quoted him as saying on Saturday.
"We will strike with an iron fist at anyone who undermines the security of this country. We will pursue this deviant group for 20 or 30 years."
Saudi security forces have been waging a relentless crackdown on Islamist extremists believed linked to the Al-Qaeda terror network since a wave of bombings against residential compounds in Riyadh killed 52 people in May and November 2003.
The Saudi interior ministry said three of the assailants were working at the Yanbu site.
"They then proceeded to fire at the offices of the workers, using various weapons, before hastily leaving the site with the intention of heading to a residential compound and attacking it," the ministry said.
"Security patrols chased them inside residential neighborhoods, and when they arrived at the compound, they were confronted by the guards, who exchanged fire with them, forcing them to retreat.
"As they fled, they attacked one citizen and one (foreign) resident, and commandeered their cars. They were chased by security forces and National Guard patrols. Shootouts ensued in various locations, and three of them were killed. A fourth was wounded and later died of his injuries."
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Al-Qaeda was probably behind the Yanbu attack, which killed an Australian construction director named as Anthony Richard Mason, 57.
"Al-Qaeda people are very active in Saudi Arabia, where one of Al-Qaeda's key objectives is the overthrow of the regime... and the establishment of a Taliban-style regime throughout Saudi Arabia," he said.
Australia has advised its nationals to defer all non-essential travel to Saudi Arabia.
ABB said it would be pulling out about 100 people including expatriate staff and their families from Yanbu although the decision does not affect ABB's other activities in Saudi Arabia.
The firm's Houston-based energy arm ABB Lummus employs more than 50 people, mainly Americans but also British and Australian nationals in Yanbu, in an oil facility run by US energy giant Exxon Mobil and the Saudi company SABIC.
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