Riyadh compound bombings

Riyadh compound bombings
Riyadh compound bombings
Part of terrorism in Saudi Arabia
Location	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Date	12 May 2003
Target	Three compounds frequented by Westerners
Attack type	Suicide attack
Deaths	39
Injured	160
Perpetrator	Al-Qaeda

Two major bombings took place in residential compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 12 May 2003, 39 people were killed, and over 160 wounded when bombs went off at three compounds in Riyadh—Dorrat Al Jadawel, Al Hamra Oasis Village, and the Vinnell Corporation Compound.^[1] On 8 November, a bomb was detonated outside the Al-Mohaya housing compound west of Riyadh, killing at least 17 people and wounding 122.^[2]

The bombings have been attributed to Islamic extremists as part of a campaign against Westerners and Westernization in Saudi Arabia. They are thought to have been sparked by the stationing of US troops in Saudi Arabia during the 1991 Gulf War with Iraq.^[3]

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^ Hegghammer, Thomas (2010). Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979. Cambridge University Press. pp. 160, 203.

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