"All sheltered behind concrete walls, electronic detectors and automatic sensors, their two or three gates guarded by armed men who opened cement road barriers only to vehicles whose drivers presented keys with the correct coded electronic signal. Drivers of unidentified cars had to step out and approach the guards who searched them and their vehicles.

The terrorists overcame this formidable security system by having several small teams strike at different points in each estate with ferocious fire and explosive power. While one group killed the guards and smashed the gates, one or more Mercedes packed with explosives and suicide terrorists drove round the other side and rammed the estates’ perimeter walls. The next team drove into the estates through the hole. Once in, vehicles loaded with cans of gasoline as well as explosives blasted high-rise buildings, killing many of their residents and leveling entire streets. Another group of terrorists rode into the damaged compounds and massacred survivors by spraying the interiors of still standing buildings with automatic fire, hand grenades and fuel bombs. Some witnesses heard the firing going on 10 minutes after the explosions. When their ammunition ran out, the killers detonated bomb belts.

...Riyadh was teeming with many hundreds of al Qaeda operatives preparing for a fresh offensive against US and Saudi targets."

1020 Also posted to: warBlog . At: 11:55:35 AM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Bin Laden Strikes again - in Riyadh

"Fully 90 percent of each of the world's large ocean species, including cod, halibut, tuna, swordfish and marlin, has disappeared from the world's oceans in recent decades, according to the Canadian analysis -- the first to use historical data dating to the beginning of large-scale fishing, in the 1950s." I have the feeling that the oceans are simply being emptied.

"This reporter (Tiernan Ray of the ecommercetimes.com) didn't do his homework when he wrote an article on weblogs in business.  He profiles companies with consumer tools (that don't even participate in the business market) and doesn't even bother to talk to a company (UserLand) that has sold weblog publishing systems to thousands of organizations (and companies such as DuPont, Daimler-Chrysler, Nokia, Motorola, Intel, and many others).  There is a way to integrate blogging tools into the enterprise, and UserLand knows how to do it.  Although, to give him credit, he was on the right track with RSS."

1018 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 10:54:50 AM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Blogging in blue chips

Watching the news last night, hearing that 9 suicide bombers also died, it struck me, that these people have been brain washed from an early age, (obviously) but why are these people not being taught about the stars, to look up at night, and not wonder why a god built it all, but to wonder how it is, to question, to learn. Allah, didn't make M83. So why think there's 27 virgins awaiting your martyr's death?

1017 Also posted to: warBlog . At: 10:50:56 AM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: M83: The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy from VLT