  What exactly happened? How many terrorists (sorry, "militants") were there? How many got away? And how? Did they cut a deal? Whose side is the royal family on? Saudi clerics have condemned the Khobar attacks because "these criminal acts only strengthen the Zionists in their aggression against the Palestinians. " urlLink Alphabetcity tries to put the pieces together. It's uglier than you thought. Meanwhile, the (Muslim) survivors have been quoted in countless news stories describing how the terr-- "militants," after ascertaining that the civilians were Muslims, asked them were the Westerners lived. But none of the stories asks the follow-up question I would have asked: "Did you tell them? " 
