The captives' ordeal only ended 24 hours later when Saudi forces stormed the building, but three of the gunmen managed to escape.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9700370%255E1702,00.html
A fourth, their alleged leader, was wounded and captured, officials said. He was identified only as one of the kingdom's "most wanted"

i havent been following the saudi story at all but this is nice...

im not sure if there were more than 4 people - but how the fukk do 3 people escape? i mean, seriously. we saw the same thing in that stupid apartment explosion in madrid (and the hoist at heathrow). do the keystoners need more time? didnt they have a day or two to get prepared, and, i dunno, maybe seal the perimeter? and as always the "but three of the gunmen managed to escape" line is always matter-of-fact, without comment.

if i didnt know better, id be tempted to think it was all part of a plan. and it helps to have someone to blame for the next terrorevent.

alqaeda did it. alqaeda did it. i guess we wont officially know till the cia tests the voiceprint ;-) curiously, my radio just played alqs 'we did it' from an 'islamic website' - and they played it in arabic - lol. are they trying to prove something? from my limited experience, the media tend not to play foreign language thingys - are they trying to prove a point? i bet the tv version of the story has a picture of some spooky arab...

"The Saudi interior ministry has listed the dead from the weekend hostage-taking and earlier shooting attacks in Khobar as eight Indians, three Filipinos, three Saudis, two Sri Lankans, one American, one Briton, an Italian, a Swede, a South African and an Egyptian." 22 dead, 10 different countries. thats some pretty nice impact reach. im surprised there wasnt an ozzie and a spaniard and a japanese. prpas we'll see those countries represented in the 'injured' list...
"Another 25 people from various countries were wounded in the attacks."

im surprised we havent found some 'unexploded bombs' yet - with the 'same detonators that alq uses', and a couple of korans and a terror almanac.