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Chronology of attacks on Westerners in Saudi Arabia
Monday, December 6, 2004 Posted: 5:46 AM EST (1046 GMT)
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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Gunfire broke out around the U.S. consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Monday and a fire erupted in the building, witnesses said.
The following is a chronology of attacks on Westerners in Saudi Arabia.
November 13, 1995 - Explosion in car park near U.S.-run military training center in Riyadh kills five Americans and two Indians, wounds 60 people.
June 25, 1996 - Bomb in fuel truck kills 19 U.S. soldiers and wounds nearly 400 people at U.S. military housing complex in eastern city of Khobar.
November 17, 2000 - Car bomb kills Briton Christopher Rodway, an engineer at Riyadh military hospital, and wounds his wife Jane.
November 22, 2000 - Car bomb in Riyadh wounds two British men and a British woman employed by a Saudi firm 50 percent owned by U.S. aircraft giant Boeing, and one Irish woman.
December 15, 2000 - David Brown, a British employee of Coca Cola International, badly burned in Khobar by a bomb hidden in a package near the windscreen of his car.
March 15, 2001 - A Briton and an Egyptian injured by an explosive device placed in a bin near a bookstore in Riyadh.
May 2, 2001 - Parcel bomb blows up in the face of American doctor Gary Hatch at Saad Medical Center in Khobar, seriously wounding him.
October 6, 2001 - Two foreigners including one American killed and four others wounded in Khobar.
June 20, 2002 - British banker Simon John Veness killed by car bomb in Riyadh.
September 29, 2002 - German man killed when what appears to be a bomb rips through his car in Riyadh.
February 20, 2003 - Briton working for defense contractor BAE Systems shot dead in Riyadh.
May 12, 2003 - Suicide bombers attack housing compounds in Riyadh, killing 35 people. At least 200 are wounded.
November 9, 2003 - Suspected al Qaeda suicide bombers blow up Riyadh residential compound housing foreigners and Saudis, killing 18.
May 1, 2004 - Gunmen kill five Westerners and two police in a shooting spree in the oil center Yanbu.
May 29, 2004 - Militants attack oil company and housing compounds in Khobar, then flee to the city's Oasis housing compound, taking dozens of hostages. Seven Saudi security police killed.
May 30, 2004 - Saudi commandos storm the Oasis compound and free 41 hostages. Twenty-two civilians are killed including an American, a Briton and an Italian. Three gunmen escape.
June 6, 2004 - Saudi gunmen kill Simon Cumbers, an Irish cameraman working for the BBC, and seriously wound his British colleague Frank Gardner as they film in an Islamist militant area of the Saudi capital Riyadh.
June 8, 2004 - Unidentified gunmen shoot dead an American in Riyadh who worked for the U.S. contracting firm Vinnell.
June 12, 2004 - A U.S. national is shot dead in the Saudi capital Riyadh in the third attack on Westerners in a week.
June 16, 2004 - Al Qaeda guerrillas show images of a blindfolded American hostage, saying he would be killed if Saudi Arabia fails to free jailed militants within 72 hours.
June 18, 2004 - Abdulaziz al-Muqrin, Al Qaeda's leader in Saudi Arabia, is shot dead by Saudi forces along with three other prominent militants hours after they beheaded American hostage Paul Johnson.
June 24 - Saudi Arabia says it will allow foreigners who feel threatened by the wave of militant violence to carry guns for their protection.
June 28 - Othman al-Amri, no. 19 on a list of 26 top militant suspects wanted by Saudi Arabia, surrenders to authorities during a one-month amnesty.
July 20 - Saudi Arabia says its security forces have killed two suspected militants and wounded three others in a heavy exchange of fire in Riyadh.
Saudi security forces find the head of slain U.S. hostage Paul Johnson in a fridge when they raided a villa in Riyadh. Security forces also found a cache of weapons and killed Isa al Oshan, on the list of 26 most wanted al Qaeda militants.
August 3 - An Irish engineer is killed in his office in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
August 5 - Saudi Arabia's security forces arrest a leading wanted militant, Faris al-Zahrani. Zahrani was on a list of 26 top wanted militants with suspected links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group.
September 15 - Three suspected Muslim militants gun down a Briton in the Saudi capital Riyadh in a suburb east of the city near a shopping complex. The Saudi wing of al Qaeda claims responsibility the next week.
September 26 - Frenchman, Laurent Barbot, is shot dead in Jeddah by suspected al Qaeda militants.
October 12 - Saudi security forces shoot dead two gunmen in heavy gunfire in the east of the capital Riyadh.
November 17 - A Saudi policeman dies in a clash with militants linked to al Qaeda who have been waging a campaign of violence in the oil-rich kingdom.
November 27 - Saudi security forces shoot dead Issam Qassem Mubaraki in a clash in Jeddah, he was suspected of planning the bombing of the Muhaya compound.
December 6 - Gunbattle around the U.S. consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
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