NEW SAUDI COMMANDO UNIT PROVES METTLE

  • Middle East Newsline
  • May 31, 2004
ABU DHABI [MENL] -- A new U.S.-trained Saudi counter-insurgency unit hassucceeded in releasing more than 50 hostages held by Al Qaida. The Saudi National Guard unit employed four U.S.-origin CH-47 Chinookheavy-lift helicopters to land about 40 commandos on the roof of a Westernhousing compound near Khobar and battled Al Qaida insurgents in anearly-morning raid on Sunday. The Saudi commandos succeeded in freeing Araband Western oil workers taken hostage by the insurgency group.
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