FOXNews.com - Top Stories - Islamist Attacks Spark Backlash in Arab Countries : "Car bombings in Saudi Arabia. A chilling tale of a foiled Al Qaeda plot in Jordan. A fire-fight in the Syrian capital.
With attacks such as these, which targeted or resulted in the deaths of Arab civilians, Islamic militants have angered not just their enemies but also the very Muslims they claim to champion.....
Days after the threat, at least six Westerners, including two Americans, were killed Saturday by unidentified gunmen — apparently Muslim extremists — who attacked an oil contractor's office in western Saudi Arabia.
Abdullah al-Taimani, a 13-year-old Saudi, was wounded in the back by a grenade fragment after stumbling into a car chase that followed Saturday's shooting. He had been headed to a mosque for prayers.
"These people are not Muslims. What they have done will only land them in hell," Abdullah's father told reporters as he sat at his son's hospital bedside Sunday.
The militants made an unusual and horrific appeal to recruit young Saudis, dragging the bloodied corpse of a Westerner through a high school parking lot and urging the students to join their Arab brethren in a holy war in Iraq.
They appear to have badly miscalculated the response: school officials said some of the boys ran from the scene crying; others spoke of nightmares.
"This is not right," said a traumatized 18-year-old. "This is un-Islamic."
Saudi authorities have cracked down on accused militants since of string of terror attacks that began with coordinated suicide bombings at Riyadh housing compounds last May that killed 34 people, including eight Americans. "
The chickens have come home to roost.
With attacks such as these, which targeted or resulted in the deaths of Arab civilians, Islamic militants have angered not just their enemies but also the very Muslims they claim to champion.....
Days after the threat, at least six Westerners, including two Americans, were killed Saturday by unidentified gunmen — apparently Muslim extremists — who attacked an oil contractor's office in western Saudi Arabia.
Abdullah al-Taimani, a 13-year-old Saudi, was wounded in the back by a grenade fragment after stumbling into a car chase that followed Saturday's shooting. He had been headed to a mosque for prayers.
"These people are not Muslims. What they have done will only land them in hell," Abdullah's father told reporters as he sat at his son's hospital bedside Sunday.
The militants made an unusual and horrific appeal to recruit young Saudis, dragging the bloodied corpse of a Westerner through a high school parking lot and urging the students to join their Arab brethren in a holy war in Iraq.
They appear to have badly miscalculated the response: school officials said some of the boys ran from the scene crying; others spoke of nightmares.
"This is not right," said a traumatized 18-year-old. "This is un-Islamic."
Saudi authorities have cracked down on accused militants since of string of terror attacks that began with coordinated suicide bombings at Riyadh housing compounds last May that killed 34 people, including eight Americans. "
The chickens have come home to roost.
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