Saudi Arabia

Suicide Bombing has become a principle weapon of terrorists around the world. The number of bombings and people killed and maimed, has become too numerous for CANASB resources to follow. Individual pages have, therefore, been rewritten to highlight important events and other events may be added as resources allow.

Although incidents have lessened reports of Saudi citizens being trained as suicide bombers and exported to other countries continue to be heard.

November 8, 2003:
In Riyadh, a suicide car bombing took place in the Muhaya residential compound, which was occupied mainly by nationals of other Arab countries. Seventeen persons were killed and 122 were wounded. The latter included 4 Americans. The next day, Deputy Secretary of State Armitage said al-Qaeda was probably responsible.

Truck Bomb Attacks in Saudi Arabia, May 12, 2003:
Suicide bombers attacked three residential compounds for foreign workers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 34 dead included 9 attackers, 7 other Saudis, 9 U.S. citizens, and one citizen each from the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Philippines. Another American died on June 1. It was the first major attack on U.S. targets in Saudi Arabia since the end of the war in Iraq. Saudi authorities arrested 11 al-Qaida suspects on May 28