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(11 Nov 2003)

1. Car driving in front of entrance to compound where bomb went off
2. Soldier standing on guard
3. Destroyed buildings, police cordon
4. Bombed buildings
5. Various of bombed buildings and cars, bystanders
6. Zoom in destroyed car
7. Exterior wrecked house
8. Man in house picks up wedding photo from debris
9. Wreckage and children looking at it
10. Children
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elizabeth Torossin, Lebanese resident of complex:
"Well we heard all those sounds, that's why I went to the balcony from inside, and then after the shots got harder and stuff, and they came on my face, they just burst on my face."
12. Saudi police walking through site
13. Wrecked car outside house, zoom in
14. Various of interiors of wrecked house
15. Exterior wrecked house
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Charmaine Garrab, South African resident of complex:
"And while I was there at the window, the blast went off and it was something that I have never experienced before, because it picked me up and it threw me onto the floor, it floored me - there's just no way to explain it, and for a couple of minutes afterwards you could hear nothing, I mean I could see my baby on the bed screaming, but I couldn't hear him."
17. Saudi police walking down street
18. Pan of wrecked houses
19. Car wreckage, police cordon
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Garbis Torossin, father of Elizabeth Torossin:
"There is no aim. What is the aim of this thing? This is a barbarian situation. For what?"
21. Cordoned off wreckage, man goes up to it
22. Various of wreckage of destroyed cars
23. Pan across wreckage, bystanders in background
24. Pan across wreckage
25. Exterior hospital
26. Hospital sign
27. Various of patient Aline Mouchantaf in bed, talking with doctor
28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Aline Mouchantaf, Lebanese resident of the complex:
"The AC (airconditioner) was removed from the wall and pushed me and fell on my back, and I think because of the pressure I flew from one place to another, like from here to there, and I shouted 'It's over, it's over', and I died or fainted for three seconds. I don't know if I died or fainted but I was seeing black."
29. Various of Aline and her husband in bed

STORYLINE:

Stories were still coming out on Tuesday about the horrors of Saturday evening's bombing of a housing complex in Saudi capital Riyadh that killed 17 people.

Three huge blasts ripped through the compound, home to mostly middle class workers from Arab countries, leaving destroyed buildings, scattered belongings, and twisted car wrecks.

The targeted compound was home to many Lebanese, seven of whom were among the dead.

"What is the aim of this thing? This is a barbarian situation," said Garbis Torossin, who daughter Elizabeth was injured in the attack.

The bombing has been blamed on al-Qaida, the Islamic militant network headed by Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden.

Bin Laden may see a strike at the Saudi Arabian economy as a way of reaching his goal of toppling the Saudi monarchy, which he accuses of deviating from the path of Islam.

A Western diplomat said companies doing business in Saudi Arabia were considering operating from bases in places in the region considered safer - though not completely cutting ties with Saudi Arabia.

He said Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates could benefit from Saudi Arabia's troubles.

The diplomat said companies doing business in Saudi Arabia were increasing security for foreign employees and recruiting unmarried people or those prepared to leave their families behind.




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