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Blood and Sand

by Frank Gardner , Frank Gardner, FRANK GARDNER, Frank Gardner, Gardner, Frank, Gardner Frank

BiographyTelevision journalistsWar correspondentsRace relationsReligious disputationsSocial conditionsPolitiek geweldIslam

On 6 June 2004, in a quiet suburb of Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the road, pleading for his life, a figure stood over him and pumped four more bullets into his body at point-blank range ...

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