Naked "Western" hostage tied to car and dragged

"Of course the timing could be coincidence. But we can imagine the outrage in
the Arab world seeing photographs of their prisoners mistreated."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/in...2SAUD.html?ex=
1084075200&en=8def3d7dc8dd5b10&ei=5062&partner=GOO GLE

"At Least 5 Killed in Office Attack in Saudi Arabia
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Published: May 2, 2004
CAIRO, May 1 — Gunmen believed to be religious militants burst into an
engineering office on Saturday in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, on the Red Sea coast,
shooting dead at least five Western engineers and taking one hostage who was
dragged naked behind their getaway car, according to reports from United
States
Embassy officials, a company spokesman and witnesses...........According to
local press reports, the gunmen demanded that the Westerners move into a
separate group from the Saudi employees and then they opened fire on the
Westerners.Three of the Westerners died at the scene, while a fourth was
stripped naked, tied to a vehicle and dragged as the assailants fled in two
separate cars, according to witnesses interviewed by reporters from The Saudi
Gazette, an English-language paper in Jidda.It was not immediately known if
he
survived"