Hot off the wires. Shooting is currently going on in the streets of Al-Khobar where some terrorists tried to enter a residential compound, mine 
. Reports of a blast are also surfacing. Reports of some terrorists entering the Petroleum center building are also circulating. Petroleum center houses some multi national companies where there is a concentration of western expats.
OK more info. Four places were simultaneously attacked. Petroleum center, Epicot(sp) building, Hail center and Oasis compound. Situation at Petroleum center is under-control with 3 americans and 2 security guards killed. Shooting is still going on in the Oasis compound where at this time of the day there are only wives and childern. A lot of my colleagues liver in that compound so the situation is quite grim at my office.
wow! Ashtray! are you from Alkhobar!? Man! im sure gglad to have you here on GS! welcome! :k: finally some one from home!
i used to be in alkhobar, Dhaharan…man i miss the place SAO DAMN MUCH!!! 
i just heard the news flash on TV.
it was hard to believe at first, times sure are changing. the calmest of places on this planet, alkhobar, now a target for terrorists…
hows the situation now? do update soon.
and nice to know you.
you live in the Oasis comp? it was one nice place, the best compo in town i guess. aree youu working smwhere? where? PM me if you are uneasy with posting details here. and what area was the petroleum centre in? i cant recall.
:(
ashtray,
something happen at the golden belt village too...?
God!
bad day for khobar,our company driver told us,he saw 1 car dragging the body on highway like they did in YANBU ,ashtray they took hostages also 
Foreigners killed in Saudi Arabia
Gunmen have killed five people in Saudi Arabia and taken a number of hostages, security sources have said.
Three foreigners and two Saudi security guards were killed in the attack in the oil-rich eastern city of Khobar.
Security sources said militants were holding an unspecified number of people hostage at a housing compound.
Earlier this month five foreigners were killed in an attack on a petrochemical site in the city of Yanbu, and a German was killed last week in Riyadh.
Khobar, 400km (250 miles) north-east of Riyadh, is one of the centres of the Saudi oil industry, in which foreigners play a key role.
Witnesses said the gunmen wore military-style dress and used a small car and a sports utility vehicle.
Attacks on foreigners
The Saudi government launched a high-profile assault on militants following a triple suicide bombing in Riyadh last May, which killed 35 people including nine bombers.
In November, 17 people died when suicide bombers struck at another compound housing mainly Arab foreign workers.
There has been a string of suicide bombings and attacks on Westerners over the last year.
Haris,
Yes I live in Oasis, I recently moved from EuroVillage into Oasis. Now the news is so fudged up with rumors that it is difficult to know what is the truth and what is made up. I have no qualms about my ID, I work for Halliburton, we have been locked down in our facility where at this time there are probably 200 western expats in the building. We are not allowed to go out and they are not letting anyone in either. So no lunch today.
Petroleum center is right next to the DHL building. I have heard that they have a few hostages in there, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes and BJ services has offices in the Building. I know for sure that a Shell guy has been shot dead and one woman in Oasis has been shot in her legs and is in surgery in Saad hospital.
I have heard of two hostage situations in Petroleum center and in Oasis where they have a lebanese family hostage, wallah alam what is true. I have just been told that I could go home?????
So I have decided to go to the Euro Village pool, that is if they let me in.
too bad..My dad was passing by Hail center when all this happen..he saw two foreigner , one Pakistani,one indian dead there..
it was about around 9:00 local time..
Situation in my office is not good either..people are bit scred from all this..
God! it has trurned into such high drama...if this can happen in Alkhobar and that too at such an imp and secure area...it can happen anywhere in any part of the world...the world isnt a safe place to live anymore. we are not safe in our homes. guys alkhobar is one of those places where theres onbe isolated crime done in a decade and ppl talk of it for years and years with horror. alkhobar is place where this stuff seems almost impossible...
the saudi forces seem incompetent when in comes to handling extreme situation. they are definitely not trained enough and have no experience. why dont the call in the units of the Pakistani forces they have there on deputation...? or perhaps even the american GIs. imagine a saudi soldier in SWAT action..will it work?
May Allah bless the departed and may the captured be freed soon.
any more updates on what they terrorists want...?
Ashtray, thanks for the updates! :k:
i hope you and your family are perfectly well and are coping well with the stressing situation, as i hope for all your friends etc…along with numerous of my friends and acquaintances there.
so the lady was being operated at saad medical centre, any news if shes fine?
the whole area has been flashing in fron tof my eyes since yesterday, so many memories attached to alkhobar.
My dad used to be at Saudi Diesel which is located at the end of thee DHL bldg road near where it connects to the area going to Doha. you must know the place. so your company is an oil drilling firm right? wha area do you work in? and how long you been there?
so you used to live at Euro viillage? many memories of EV too. a lot of Saudi diesel ppl still live there.
the news channesl were saying smthng about Golden Belt. did tthey mean GB Village or the GB area?
well, talk to you later then.
glad to have you here.
Aejaz and Shabax,
glad to have you here on GS form Alkhobar!
i never knew we had other Alkhobar guppies here.
would you care for intros…?
:k:
Haris you forgot me sighs
This is Mclaren(u can call me shah),I work for Sun Microsystems as a Sales Engineer,live near khobar Corniche,our family is been living here for da past 30 years,did my education from states now bak in Al-khobar,and you guys? 
why do you forget me when it comes to khobar?
i was born in Khobar and i'm still here..
yesterday when i was in my class, they told us that there's firing going on and blaa bla...
many ppl left the kingdom and went 2 to dubai n bahrain...
Firing was still going on till this morning near khobar corniche i think or the Oasis Compound...
umm... if it is still dangerous and un-safe ( our skool is gonna closed and we'll have no finals!! ) like last year!
we already had a holiday for today.. but not sure about the days coming...
nicee…:k: ummmm where do yea live then ? the exact location:p i live near rashid mall:smooth:
DAYYUM! I’m not the only one here..
oh my word. Hope you guys are okay. Whos behind all of this?
KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia: Saudi commandos stormed a residential complex on Sunday and rescue dozens of foreigners held hostage by the armed men, while British TV has reported killing of 50 hostages in the operation.
Saudi forces arrested a hostage taker and killed two others in the raid to end a more than 24-hour drama in the eastern oil city of Khobar in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi commandos landed in the Oasis compound by helicopters and scores of hostages were released from the compound.
**However, the British TV has reported killing of 50 hostages and two hostage takers in the operation, while a gunmen was arrested. Saudi authorities however not confirmed killing of any hostage in the operation.
** ALLAH reham karai
The gunmen yesterday attacked a residential compound and oil facilities and killed 17 including a Pakistani and western countries citizens. They had took 50 people in the compound as hostage. Al-Qaida had claimed responsibility of the attack.
United States has advised all US nationals in Saudi Arab to leave the country after the incident.
acha hoa jayen yeh u.s national yahan se:snooty:
saudi rules! baddu rox:p
Mcclaren, Shah, hi!
wow! great to have you here too! :k:
boy! i sure am glad we have quite a presence of alkhobar guppiies here.
you live near the croniche? man…i wanna cry! i miss the place so much!
brokensky,
hey! you from alkhobar too!? cool!
what school are you in? and hows good old rashid mall?
ummm i go to rahima academy...heard of it? but b4 ofcourse i was in paki skool and spent 8 wonderful years there...
rashid mall is fyne shye... ppl still use it for dating shating:p lol...
corniche ki shakal hi badaldi hai lol.. saudii getting better n better...
one question for khobar ppl...
who remembers APNA BAZAAR and AL-FALAH SUPER MARKET?
i live right beside al-falah
nice to hear from you guys