TFS, MIMH. I was only there from August 2008 and was not aware of earlier incidents.

Picked this out from your link though, ""Al-Qaeda has threatened Westerners in the area" - so this was in 2005 and there was a wall street journal article in January this year about Al-Qaeda opening office in Qatar...

/Anyway, apologies to OP, for going off tangent. Back to thread track.