UK Defence contractor killed in Saudi

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The British Media are making lots of connections on this one - the underlined part is quaint timing.

 

http://www.ntlworld.com/partners/ananova/news/uk/crime-_murders-_saudi_arabia-_world/752761.html

 

Sateesh.

 

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Briton killed in Saudi ArabiaA British man has been killed in the Saudi capital,

Riyadh. Saudi television said the Briton, who worked for British aviation

company BAE Systems in the kingdom and was a resident there, was attacked as he

sat in his car at traffic lights. His alleged attacker was arrested and has been

identified as Saud bin Ali bin Nasser, 30, a Saudi of Yemeni origin working for

a car dealership.

The killing comes a day after the British Government warned its nationals to

leave Iraq immediately, and to avoid all but essential travel to Kuwait, Israel

and the Palestinian territories.

The attack comes after a string of violent incidents involving British nationals

in the kingdom, the last one being a car bomb which killed a Briton in June

2002. The Saudi authorities blamed those incidents on an illegal alcohol racket

and has arrested several Britons in connection with the attacks. Motive unknown

Thursday's attack took place between 1600 and 1800 local time (1300 and 1500

GMT) on Khaled bin al-Walid Street in the Granada district of Riyadh. The

motive for the killing remains unclear. It has also emerged that there have

been in the last three weeks two other attempted shootings against BAE

personnel in Riyadh, both unsuccessful, says the BBC Kuwait correspondent Paul

Adams. Westerners have also been killed in neighbouring Kuwait in recent

months. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are home to thousands of US troops, who are

likely to take part in a possible war on Iraq.

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