US Consulate in Saudi Arabia Attacked

This morning, WND reported about the developing situation in Saudi Arabia. There are at least 12 people dead and several more are injured. Unfortunately, only three terrorists were killed. The others, according to the Saudi Interior Ministry were four members of the country's security forces while the remaining five were non-American staff who worked at the consulate. A former ambassador to the Sand Land said the attack was similar to other al-Qaida attacks, although no one has to claim responsibility. One person has been quoted as saying the attack did require some organizational skills.

The part of this story that grabbed my attention was where the spokeswoman, Carol Kalin said the following:

"We have a local work force that was on duty and we are still in the process of accounting for [them]."

1) What is a "local work force"?
2) What were they supposed to be doing, exactly?
3) Why is it that we can't find them?

I'm not implicating this "local work force" into the attacks (yet). I'm just curious.

The part I find curious is that the story on Yahoo (from Reuters) says that none of the nation's (Saudi) special forces were killed, though two were injured. How did Saudi "special forces" get injured, you ask? Well, while US Marines were providing security for the compound (after the terrorists had taken some hostages), the Saudi special forces assaulted the consulate and rescued the hostages that claim they were used as human shields. That's all nice, fine and dandy, except I don't think I'd be trusting the Saudis with anything half-way important, let alone a US consulate. They have proven their inability to be trusted by their financial support of terrorists and their continuance to harbor terrorists.

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