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On 29 May 2004, a Saturday, four men armed with guns and bombs attacked two oil industry installations and a residential compound, in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia—the hub of the Saudi oil industry. [1] Over approximately 25 hours, the gunmen, describing themselves as members of "The Jerusalem Squadron" or "Jerusalem Brigade", killed 22 and injured ...
If true, this would leave only two persons ( Saleh Al-Aufi, the alleged leader of Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, and Taleb Al-Taleb) on that list unaccounted for. 29 June The security services issues two new lists of wanted persons. List A includes 15 names of persons suspected of terrorist affiliations and who are thought to be in the Kingdom.
The attack occurred six months prior to the Khobar Towers bombing, which killed 19 Americans. Both bombings have been attributed to Hezbollah Al-Hejaz. In September 2018, a U.S. Army pilot died while training a Saudi student pilot on the AH-6i light attack helicopter at the Khashm Al An Airfield in Riyadh.
Late on 12 May, several vehicles manned by heavily armed assault teams arrived at three Riyadh compounds: The Dorrat Al Jadawel, a compound owned by the London-based MBI International and Partners subsidiary Jadawel International, the Al Hamra Oasis Village, and the Vinnell Corporation Compound, occupied by a Virginia-based defense contractor that was training the Saudi National Guard. [2]
Al-Fahd: Saudi Arabia: 100: First indigenously designed APC. Piranha II: Switzerland: 1,117: 172 more on order. LAV-25 United States: Multiple variants N/A LAV II Canada: ten different varieties 724 Cadillac Gage Commando United States: V-150S 579+ between 7 and 10 of the Saudi V-150s were destroyed when they were used against Iraq EE-11 Urutu ...
The Khobar Towers bombing was an attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, near the national oil company (Saudi Aramco) headquarters of Dhahran and nearby King Abdulaziz Air Base on 25 June 1996.
The Public Security Forces dealt two fatal blows to Al-Qaeda, the first on June 18, 2004, when they killed the third leader of Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz Al-Muqrin, and his right-hand man, Faisal Al-Dakhil, as well as Turki Al-Mutayri and Ibrahim Al-Durahim, while their presence was monitored at a gas station in the Al-Malaz ...
The Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (MNG-HA) is a government-funded health system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, founded in 1983.It is affiliated with the Ministry of National Guard and the Saudi Arabian National Guard, consisting of medical cities spread in many regions (Riyadh, Jeddah, Al-Ahsa, Dammam, and Medina).