Hostage compound 'for top bosses'

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3761629.stm

A hostage siege in the Saudi Arabian city of Khobar was centred on the Oasis residential compound.

It is the most expensive in the city, and houses company executives.

Its restaurants, ice rink, spas, swimming pools, pastry shop and landscape gardens with fountains provide a supposedly safe environment.

Foreigners living nearby have described Oasis as a luxurious place which is too expensive for ordinary oil workers to live in.

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[Warpy]

1. Well, that explains why oil company talking heads

..were all atwitter last night, talking about how the Saudi oil supply would be disrupted and prices would skyrocket (again).

Suits always overestimate their importance to human endeavor. This will, however, provide a nice excuse for oil companies to hike prices again.

[teryang]

2. What a way to live

It's almost funny to hear people speak of their paranoid security life style as if it were normal.