December 29, 2003

Car Explodes in Riyadh

A car exploded in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Monday night, witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

The Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite channel said the explosion occurred under a car owned by a police officer who had parked outside a mosque. The blast destroyed the car and shattered windows in nearby buildings, Al-Arabiya's correspondent in Riyadh reported.

Stay tuned for more details on this...you know how secretive and Kremlin-like the Saud news services are, particularly about domestic Islamist terrorism.
While we're on the subject, take the time to read this 7-page in-depth analysis of the Saudi terror problem at Foreign Affairs Magazine:
The Saudi Paradox.
The author explains why the [Sunni] Wahhab Sauds' real war is against the Shi'ites, whom they lump together with "Zionists," Jews and Americans, citizens of the Great Satan. Doran notes that the Saudi royal family divides its time, efforts and police action at home between suppressing Wahhab jihadi terror, on the one hand (Prince Abdullah), while persecuting more secular-minded Islamic reformers on the other hand (Prince Nayef).
This Sunni Saudi-financed and supported war on Shiites is very likely one of the major forces behind the Sunni Ba'athist "guerilla" war on our Coalition soldiers in Iraq.
This could, and most likely will, get very ugly for them (and perhaps for us) before it's over and certainly after 9/11, we know that it already did.
And yet they call themselves the Religion of Peace™?