I CAN'T BELIEVE WE ARE DISCUSSING IT

Saturday's terror bombing in the Saudi city of Riyadh killed and maimed over 100 people.

Apologists for the terrorists say it is all a mistake...that they meant to kill and maim "westerners".

Al Qaeda says their bombs were correctly targeted, but say the Saudi claims that mostly Arabs were killed or maimed is incorrect.

Excuse me...does this debate make any sense? If there is a person on the face of the planet who believes it is somehow better or worse that terrorists kill and maim 100 people based upon the color of their passport - then I have little hope for humanity.

For the hundreth time...these are terrorists. They do not honor the tenets of civilized humanity. There is no excusing their killings, be those killings of Arabs, Jews, Christians or Buddhists.

Those who see a difference are complicit in the murders of innocents from Beirut to Khobar Towers to the World Trade Center to Riyadh.

Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for last weekend's deadly bombing of a neighborhood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, according to a statement posted on the terrorist network's Web site.

Saudi officials had initially blamed al Qaeda for Saturday's blast, which killed 17 people and wounded 122. The victims were mostly Arabs. Five of them were children.

In the lengthy statement, al Qaeda disputed that, claiming the compound was rented by employees of the FBI and that several of the victims were American, French and German. It also denied that a large number of children died, unless there was a nursery on site.

The statement claimed more than 55 people were killed in the blast, including 30 Saudi security forces.

A man in Saudi custody told investigators that al Qaeda made a mistake -- that it believed it was targeting a neighborhood housing Americans and didn't realize most of the victims would be Arabs, Saudi government sources told CNN.

Two Saudi officials rejected that suggestion.

"If their intent is to kill Americans, it doesn't answer the question as why are they involved in activities in Mecca," said Saudi government spokesman Nail Al-Jubeir.

"Why do they have bomb factories in the holy city of Mecca that only Muslims go to? Why do they have traps in Mecca?"

Nail Al-Jubeir said the attack was not meant as a "symbolic attack" against the royal family: "Their target is humanity."