> >> Risk
> >> P.S. Starter for a tenner: why did Mosad agents commit an act of
> terrorism
> >> in Yanbu (Saudi Arabia) last week, killing a couple of Americans and a
> >> couple of Brits?
> >
> >+ and an Ossie and  Saudis
> >
> >
> >Intrigued and ignorant I did a bit of googling and could find no
> >confirmation of this. Some claims of "Zionist" involvement, but
> >no proof.  Saudi dissidents and / or Al quaeda seem the favourites.
> >
> >Tell us more Ahamad
>
Ahmad
> It was announced by the Saudi foreign minister.  It is hardly something
> you will find confirmation of in google.

But it is there on google - an early reaction which has not been
repeated especially as the perpurtrators have been caught and found to
be Saudis with known links to anti-Suadi government groups.
OK, that is what is claimed!

Or are you claiming that such groups are Mossad controlled?
As a Brit it would seem more likely that such dissident groups
in Saudi have more to do with the lack of democracy, police state,
lack of free speach, insistance on keeping to traditional islamic
punishment; and the fact that the average income has fallen
in that country by 50% (fifty) over the last 10 years.

> Human rights group Amnesty also accused British troops of killing Iraqi
> civilians -- including an eight-year-old girl and a wedding guest -- when
> they posed no apparent threat.

Terrible., awful, of course it shouldn't have happened.
But I don't know how I would have reacted as a young
soldier in fear of my life in a stange and hostile country.
I think many things might be an "apparent threat" at any
given moment, which  with hindsight later seem trivial.

I guess the poor soldier who did this feels as bad as I feel about some
of my mistakes in medicine.

Its easy for Amnesty to say all these things should have been
investigated - it might be that the British troops are a bit busy trying
to prevent other atrocities, look after therir own skins etc.. I don't
imagine that the troops keep to the EU working time directive
or get any R & R.

I'm glad I'm not out there - how will we ever get out and leave
something approaching peace?


David Jobson