Non-Saudi Workers Leaving After Attack

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YANBU, Saudi Arabia - More than 100 non-Saudi workers were set to leave the country Sunday, one day after militants sprayed gunfire inside an oil contractor's office, killing at least six people before tying a body to the bumper of a car and dragging it past horrified students at a high school. Two Americans and three other Westerners were among the dead.


Bjorn Edlund, spokesman for multinational engineering company ABB, told The Associated Press that all of its non-Saudi workers in Yanbu had asked to leave. More than 100 employees and their families — most of them American but including Britons, Australians, Filipinos and Indians — were set to depart in the next few days, Edlund said from Zurich, Switzerland.


Police killed the four gunmen in a shootout after a car chase. One of the attackers was reported to be on the Saudi kingdom's list of most-wanted terrorists, many of them suspects in 2003 suicide attacks on foreign housing compounds in the capital, Riyadh. The two attacks were blamed on al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s terror network.


Students told the AP on Sunday that bearded men drove a car drove into the parking lot of the Ibn Hayyan Secondary Boys School as classes began Saturday, the start of the school week. They fired into the air to attract students' attention, then urged the boys to go to an Iraqi city where U.S. troops are battling insurgents.


"God is great! God is great! Come join your brothers in Fallujah!" they shouted. Pointing to the bloodied and badly damaged corpse, his clothes shredded, they screamed: "This is the president of America."

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1. I have the experience of personally meeting hundreds to a thousand

Filipino, Malaysian, Indonesian, and Thai workers. It must really be bad for them to be leaving Saudi because in fact what they are doing is committing economic destruction in their lives.

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2. I hadn't realized there had been another mutilation

That was played down on CNNI.

Pointing to the bloodied and badly damaged corpse, his clothes shredded, they screamed: "This is the president of America."

Here's a more recent URL of Americans being urged to leave:

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