{"id":1025,"date":"2004-06-07T16:46:49","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T23:46:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-06-07T16:46:49","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T23:46:49","slug":"bbc-reporters-gunned-down-in-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/07\/bbc-reporters-gunned-down-in-riyadh\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC reporters gunned down in Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stuarthughes.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Hughes<\/a> has the news about the Saudi shooting of his two colleagues in Riyadh.  Stuart is presently in London in the BBC newsroom.  Here&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/from_our_own_correspondent\/3779141.stm\" target=\"_blank\"> Frank Gardner&#8217;s last report<\/a> from Saudi Arabia before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/06\/07\/1086460241226.html\" target=\"_blank\">being gunned down on a Riyadh street. <\/a>  Simon Cumbers was killed and Frank is in critical condition, but was described as &#8220;stabilized&#8221; today, though he is in a coma.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I wasn&#8217;t going to post this, but Stuart did, so I will.  This is a screen grab from Saudi TV of Frank Gardner just after he was shot.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"frank_hit\" src=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/images\/frank_hit.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" border=\"0\"  \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Hughes has the news about the Saudi shooting of his two colleagues in Riyadh. Stuart is presently in London in the BBC newsroom. Here&#8217;s Frank Gardner&#8217;s last report from Saudi Arabia before being gunned down on a Riyadh street. Simon Cumbers was killed and Frank is in critical condition, but was described as &#8220;stabilized&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}