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Mia Xanthi
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Location: why is my heart still in the Middle East while the rest of me isn't?
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 Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:04 am Post subject: Everyone ok out there? |
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I just found this in the Arab News. Hope it's not anyone we know.
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Briton stabbed to death
Roger Harrison | Arab News
JEDDAH/DAMMAM: A British man was found fatally stabbed in an apartment in the Eastern Province city of Alkhobar on Tuesday. The man, believed to be in his 50s, was not the target of a terrorist attack, said a British Embassy official on condition of anonymity.
�There are no indicators from the police investigation thus far that this was a terrorist incident,� said the embassy official. �We are actively involved in contacting his relatives in the UK.�
The official said that the victim was understood to be living in Bahrain but had been working in Saudi Arabia.
An Eastern Province police official said a full-scale inquiry has been launched.
It is believed that the British citizen had a dispute with an Egyptian man who was later found at an area hospital being treated for knife wounds to his hands.
Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki confirmed that a suspect had been arrested.
�The unidentified British man, believed to be in his 50s, was found dead in the apartment of an Egyptian acquaintance after police received a telephone tip-off,� a police official told Arab News on condition of anonymity
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scot47
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| I spotted this too. Generally KSA is a quiet place and we do not think much about security. Then we read of something like this. |
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Cleopatra
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| I don't see why this isolated incident should make me - or anyone else - feel less secure in KSA. From what I have read in the ever-reliable Arab News and Guardian newspapers, the man's death appears to be the result of a personal dispute which turned violent between him and another individual. Tragic, of course, but not all that uncommon anywhere in the world, and certainly not a reason for 'expats' to become more paranoid than some of them already are. |
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scot47
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Cleo
We should encourage their paranoia. I want them to leave. |
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Cleopatra
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:51 am Post subject: |
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| I suspect that what you really want is to pick up some 'bargain' used cutlery and bed sheets at their 'masalama' sales! |
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Mia Xanthi
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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I did not intend to incite paranoia with the post. IMHO, we are probably about as safe in KSA as we are anywhere else...meaning that we should take just as much care with our personal safety in KSA as we do in our home countries or travelling elsewhere. Saudi Arabia (despite its long reputation for being a "crime-free" society in the past) is not immune to the occasional nutcase with a knife and a grudge.  |
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Cleopatra
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Saudi Arabia (despite its long reputation for being a "crime-free" society in the past) is not immune to the occasional nutcase with a knife and a grudge. |
I agree, but let's not jump to conclusions here.
In the first place, how do we know the Egyptian man was a 'nutcase'? Let's not forget he "was later found at an area hospital being treated for knife wounds to his hands" which indicates this may not have been a straightforward, one-sided attack. We simply do not know what happened in this altercation, let alone who 'started' it and what may have sparked it off. |
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