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Article: SAUDI ARABIA - May 1 - Wahhabi Militants Hit Yanbu' Plants; Kill Westerners.
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Wahhabi extremists suspected to be affiliated with Al-Qaeda go on a shooting spree, killing five expatriates at the giant SABIC/ExxonMobil petrochemicals complex (Yanpet) at the Yanbu' industrial complex on the Red Sea coast. The victims are two Americans, two Britons and an Australian employed by Swiss-based ABB Lummus, an arm of the Swiss-Swedish engineering and oil services group working on an expansion and upgrading at Yanpet. (This causes Western companies in Yanbu' and in other parts of the kingdom to plan pulling their expatriate staff out of Saudi Arabia, and raises the stakes in the militants' confrontation with the authorities. It is the first attack on a major ...