Man peacful Qatar is under attack :ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno:

Man peacful Qatar is under attack :ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno:

what happened???????
i didn't see anything in the news
are you serious?

blast at some school in Qatar injured 6 people

was it a terrorist attack then? :(

As of 9:30 pm a bomb went off in one of Doha's suburbs. The blast was very strong and was felt all over doha. the bomb was planted in a cafeteria in an international school, the modern english school. At the time there were 30 international/qatari students performing a play for shakespare and around 70 parents were attending. It is believed they were targeted. The wood shack cafeteria blow up completely and serious damage was made to the building opposite to them. Around the neigbourhood car and house windows were blasted.
As of now 6 are hurt, all stable conditions. The ppl hurt are arabs and asians. the whole place is blocked off and fire fighting men are still putting out the fire.

12 hurt, nine left.. 2 still critical.. one dead :<

unbelievable :ohno:

if it's a terrorist attack what and when might something happen in cities like manama, abu dhabi and dubai?
i hope this was just a freak who has lost his mind!

Violence is just increasing in this world...most countries aren't safe anymore

Qatar4Ever, are you sure its a bomb? Or was it a gas explosion? I'm very sorry to hear such news comming from Qatar. This is very unexpected :(. I know how these people feel, terrorism is such a horrible phenomenon that is sweeping across the world.

man this makes me so angry...what kind of a sick #### would target a school!!! Its so sad to hear one person died. i hope this was just a freak accident and not a crime with intention!

lets wait and see..........it might be caused by a gas leak or something......don't jump to any conclusions

Officials are now stating it was a suicide car bomb. Source - every news agency (http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?ei=ISO-8859-1&c=&p=qatar)

:(

It was a car bomb, I don't know about suicide operation though, it wouldn't make sense. Sadely, this seems to ba a terrorist attack.

taken from cnn.com



Car bomb hits near school in Qatar's capital
Interior Ministry: One person dead, 12 wounded


Qatar's Interior Ministry says a car bomb went off near a British school in Doha on Saturday night.


DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- A car bomb caused the explosion that went off near a British school in Doha on Saturday night, killing one person and wounding 12 others, said the Qatari Interior Ministry.

The nationality of the dead person is unknown.

A senior official at the ministry, Maj. Ahmed al-Hayki, told Arabic-language television station Al-Jazeera that one Briton is hurt, and the rest of the wounded are Asians, Arabs and Qataris.

They are expected to survive.

The motive and party responsible for the blast are not known.

It occurred near the school's theater, where Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" was being staged, according to The Associated Press.

Some sources said there were 100 people at the theater, most of them Westerners and Arab expatriates.

TV news footage showed slight structural and car damage.

Ambulances were shown taking people from the scene, and firefighters were also on-site.

The blast occurred in the Markhyia neighborhood, where many expatriates live.

U.S. Central Command has headquarters on the other side of town, and none of the embassies and consulates are near the blast location.

Its getting more and more dangerous this is why Bahrain is getting a lot of new facilities, most expats will move to Bahrain because all the other countries of the surrounding are getting more and more hostile + dangerous, like in kuwait for the first time! foreigners are afraid of going on the streets.

Its getting more and more dangerous this is why Bahrain is getting a lot of new facilities, most expats will move to Bahrain because all the other countries of the surrounding are getting more and more hostile + dangerous, like in kuwait for the first time! foreigners are afraid of going on the streets.

I wouldnt say bahrain is exactly immune from these current theats, and the only foreigners that are moving as a result of this are the ones that live on the eastern borders of saudi (dammam, khobar, dhahran etc.), because I guess bahrain is relatively safer. Alot of them move to bahrain and commute to saudi..hence the consturction of some new compunds to cater for this. However unlike kuwait and saudi foreginers here still go out to public places as usual...but I have known a few who avoid places of western interest such as clubs and bars...Out of all GCC countries i personally think oman is the safest place in the gulf right now and mashAllah to that.

yes safest probably oman....although i remenber hearing about some arrests around valentine day or someting like that ........anyhow oman is pretty safe

as for a city i think abu dhabi is probably the safest, for some reason everytime i go there i feel right a home, friendly environment or maybe cause i'm NOT a foreigner don't know

You guys I don't know about how safe Oman is... They arrested somewhere around 100 men a few months ago because security agencies had picked up signals that they might be planning attacks during some cultural or shopping festival. I would say that either Bahrain or the UAE are the safest.

Your right about oman, last month over 100 ppl have been arrested for their political activity. Kuwait and KSA dont seem to be safe at all, and with yestardays events, doha seems very vaunrable, madry how u spell it. UAE is pretty safe and so is bahrain. However i think bahrain as of lately has a serious problem with vandlism by certain youth and some acts of political stupidity.

Very sad to hear :(. The executer was Egyptian. I can't believe how stupid and cruel these ppl can get, honestly hell to them. They're just ruining it for everyone including themselves, and the worst part is that they do it in the name of God and Islam, which is a disgrace. Am sure Qatar will deploy tons of security forces to avoid similar incidents, plus they need to ensure max safety before the Asian Games next year.



Your right about oman, last month over 100 ppl have been arrested for their political activity. Kuwait and KSA dont seem to be safe at all, and with yestardays events, doha seems very vaunrable, madry how u spell it. UAE is pretty safe and so is bahrain. However i think bahrain as of lately has a serious problem with vandlism by certain youth and some acts of political stupidity.

I know what your talkin about, those are the idiots who abuse the concept of "Freedom" and think they can do whatever they want, but the police are really good and catching them very quickly. The thing about Bahrain is that you can read about this in the papers while in other countries, they'll not put it. More police are being deployed and inshalla they'll be controlled.

I will not suggest that a country is safer, if al-Quada want to attack in any country in the region it can do it quit easily. I mean think about it if the U.S.A that have an intelligent and police service that is 1000 times more professional and with more means and the U.S.A was attacked. Will it be the regions police and intelligent service that will stop those kinds of attacks?

Really bad news for whole areas tourism industry.

Qatar is likely to maintain its robust economic growth, shrugging off a suicide car bombing that killed a Briton at a theatre popular with Westerners, analysts said yesterday.

Saturday's attack also injured 16 people, mainly Arabs and Asians.

"I would be surprised if this knocks Qatar off track. There is a lot of momentum built up in the economy," said Simon Williams of London's Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). He said the EIU was unlikely to cut its forecast of eight per cent 2005 real economic growth for Qatar in the wake of the attack.

Qatar's economy grew 8.7pc in real terms in 2004, the EIU estimates, driven by higher oil and gas prices and increased output from the country's gas-based industries. Qatar has the world's third largest gas reserves after Russia and Iran. Qatar's stock market barely moved yesterday, the day after the attack. The Doha Securities Market index eased just 31 points, or 0.3pc, to close at about 11,225 points.

"One bomb is not going to fundamentally affect the business of the country," said Shailesh Dash, an analyst at Global Investment House, an investment bank in nearby Kuwait. However, one senior economist in Qatar said the attack could hurt foreign investment, or lead to ratings downgrades from credit rating agencies, which could raise the cost of borrowing for major energy and infrastructure projects.


All about tools at seminar

MANAMA: Bosch Power Tools division is organising a two-day technical presentation, in association with Bahrain's Falcon Trading Company.

The presentation, entitled Bosch Power Adventure Tour, will be held at the Gulf Air Club in Salmabad from 9am to 9pm tomorrow and from 9am to 5pm on Wednesday.

Falcon Trading Company product manager Bala Bhaskar Rao said that the main aim of the seminar was to familiarise people with professional tools and to give them a hands-on experience.

The presentation is open to all on the first day. On Wednesday it will be for all government school technical students.

Bosch Power Tools is a German based company and Falcon Trading Company is its sole distributor in Bahrain.

Mr Rao said the event was part of a regional marketing strategy.

For more information contact Mr Rao on 39797669.


EU deficit plan backed

BRUSSELS: The 12 members of the euro zone agreed on a compromise yesterday to reformulate European Union budget deficit rules, an official of one member state said as all 25 EU finance ministers met to consider the deal.

The official said French Finance Minister Thierry Breton proposed a formula that all 12 ministers accepted, addressing German demands for special consideration of its unification costs.

"It covers the only significant stumbling block ... all 12 agreed. There's an agreement," the official said. The Stability and Growth Pact rules are designed to underpin the EU's single currency.