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Title: Doha, Qatar bomb
Description: British teacher March 2005
justthefacts - September 5, 2007 02:09 AM (GMT)
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In 2005, a suicide-bombing killed a British teacher at the Doha Players Theatre, shocking a country that had not previously experienced acts of terrorism. http: middle-east-online. com english ?id=13047 QUOTE
Qatar confirms Doha attack was suicide bombing
It is first official confirmation Saturday s car bombing outside theatre in Doha was suicide bombing.
DOHA - The Qatari interior ministry confirmed on Tuesday that the car bombing which killed one Briton and wounded 12 people in Doha at the weekend was a suicide attack. It was a suicide operation in which the perpetrator of the crime died, spokesman Brigadier Ahmad al-Hayki said. It was the first official confirmation that Saturday s car bombing outside a theatre near a British school in the Qatari capital was a suicide bombing. Doha-based Al-Jazeera television had on Sunday quoted the interior ministry as saying it was a suicide attack, but no specific statement to that effect was released. Authorities have identified the bomber as an Egyptian resident, Omar Ahmad Abdullah Ali, saying he had blown up his own, booby-trapped car, the first such attack in the gas-rich Gulf state. The bombing has been claimed by a shadowy Islamist group calling itself the Jund al-Sham Organization, (or Organization of Soldiers of the Levant), in statements posted on the Internet in which it also threatened to carry out attacks against oil facilities, churches and Western military bases in the Middle East. The investigation is continuing . and it is premature to identify the masterminds of the Doha bombing, Hayki said when asked about the possibility that the Al-Qaeda terror network orchestrated the attack. We take all information (related to the bombing) seriously, he added. Audiotapes and messages attributed to Saudi-born Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and other figures from the network have called for attacks against Western targets and oil installations in the region. The latest came two days before the Doha attack, when a recording attributed to Al-Qaeda s Saudi chief, Saleh al-Oufi, and posted on an Islamist website called on the brethren in Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other countries neighbouring Iraq to strike crusader targets on their territory. I don t know about crusaders, but Lord Woolf, and Blair s brother, are well established in Doha.
amirrortotheenemy - September 5, 2007 01:57 PM (GMT)
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Bomber targeted most British of Doha landmarks The car bomber who targeted a theatre in Qatar and killed a British expatriate appears to have picked out Qatar’s most visible symbol of British connection with the oil-rich emirate; the longest established amateur theatre company for foreigners in the capital Doha. On the night of the attack it was staging a production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Briton Jonathan Adams, the director of the play, was killed and 12 injured in the bombing, the first major terrorist attack in the emirate. It was assumed to be timed to coincide with the anniversary of the US-led attack on Iraq in 2003. The Doha Players was set up as an amateur theatre group in 1954, and built its own theatre 25 years later. The auditorium, which was gutted by the blast, was officially opened by Issa al-Kuwari, the then Minister of Information and president of the Doha Players, in December 1979. Authorities have said the suicide attack was carried out by an Egyptian resident, Omar Ahmad Abdullah Ali, who blew up his own booby-trapped car. Source Some eyewitness reports from BBC News: http: news. bbc. co. uk 2 hi middle_east 4365659. stm
justthefacts - September 5, 2007 03:09 PM (GMT)
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Dear Jon Adams, Very sad to hear about your demise, which occurred at a time when you are actively engaged in your first love - THEATRE.
Since the days we were working together in film making in SriLanka, I appreciated your simplicity and genuine love for arts. You were very kind to me, a novice to English film making and always lent an sympathetic ear to our doubts. From 1995, the year I left for Canada, I lost contact with you and tried my best to find out your whereabouts. Now all of a sudden, I hear this news that you died in the bomb blast in a Qatar theatre, while functioning as the Director of the play Twelfth Night being staged on that day. Because you felt responsible for the welfare of the people who came to see your play, you rushed out to check the noise which you heard from outside the theatre and thereby took the full force of that blast. I remember Dear Friend, even while we were making The Blendings you always take care about our comfort and welfare. Good Bye --Dear Friend Jon Adams
My first scene with you
The Briton killed in Saturday’s theatre blast
Web posted at: 3 21 2005 4:30:49 Jonathan Adams
Doha: Jonathan Adams was the British national who died in Saturday’s explosion. He was the director of the Shakespearian play Twelfth Night which was being staged at Doha Players theatre when the blast took place late on Saturday evening. The theatre, which was built with the help of the community, company sponsorships and the Qatari government some 25 years ago, was gutted in the blast. Adams was seated in the auditorium in the last row and went looking out after he heard a loud noise at around 8. 40 pm.
Fire engines fighting the flames as smoke billows out from the building which caught fire. He was severely injured by the blast and is said to have succumbed to his injuries on the spot. More than 100 people were present inside the theatre at the time of the explosion and the play was still on. They included an estimated 20 to 30 people from the play’s cast and backstage personnel. Fortunately, the theatre was not packed to capacity (it has 348 seats) on the fateful Saturday evening although it was a weekly off. According to community sources, some five to six people who were in the theatre at the time were injured. Adams was in his late forties and hailed from Devon in England. He was teaching drama at a prestigious institution and was based in Doha for about two years. He was married with no children and his wife also teaches here, community sources said. In a message published in a promotional pamphlet of Twelfth Night, Adams ironically wrote: “Shakespeare seems just as reluctant to give us a truly happy ending as ever”. The play Twelfth Night was set in British India of a 100 years ago. A press preview of the play was held at Doha Players on Tuesday with Adams being present. The play was being staged for the public from Thursday evening and it was slated to conclude on the fourth evening yesterday. It had to tragically end on Saturday itself.
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Middle East March 21, 2005
Tributes for man who took full force of blast
By Sean O Neill JON ADAMS spent last week receiving plaudits for his production of Twelfth Night, the first play he had directed for the Doha Players.
The local press in Doha praised it as “lively” and “fresh” and his cast had only good words to say about it.
Mr Adams, who was in his 50s and originally from Dorset, had been in Qatar for two years having previously lived in Dubai and, for a long period, in Sri Lanka. He arrived to teach English and drama at the newly-opened Qatar Academy, one of the Gulf state’s most expensive and prestigious schools. Among his pupils was one of the sons of Sheikh Hamad ibn Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar. Mr Adams’s wife, Rosemarie, also worked as a teacher at the school and ran a book club. The couple had a lifelong love of amateur dramatics and became involved with theatre companies wherever they lived in the world. Last year he played the part of C. S. Lewis in a production of Shadowlands marking the 50th anniversary of the Doha Players. “Jon was a quiet and private man but he always preferred to act rather than direct. Yet because of his great experience and ability we came to rely on him as a director and he was great at it,” said a friend from the company. “His Twelfth Night was very, very good indeed and everyone loved working with him. Jon was a kind, thoughtful man and he will be terribly missed. ” The friend said: “I think Jon had been involved in amateur dramatics all his life. He told me once that when he was in Sri Lanka he’d even done some film work, always playing a ‘nasty colonial type’. ” Mr Adams sat on the board of the theatre company in the role as production chairman. Mr Adams was seated in the back row of the theatre when he heard the noise of the bomber’s car crashing at the back of the building. He went out through a rear door to see what was happening and caught the full force of the explosion. His wife suffered cuts to her hand and bruising in the blast and was still being treated last night in the American Hospital in Qatar. She is said to be “in shock” but coping well and determined to rebuild her life. The Doha Players are also resolute in their aim to rebuild the theatre, which was built in 1979 but completely destroyed in Saturday’s blast. Dave Garrod, a member of the theatre board, said: “The theatre will be rebuilt and renamed The Phoenix, home of the Doha Players. “We also intend to replace the West End building with a new facility which we will call the Jon Adams Memorial building. ” Support Human Rights
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