Georgia man confirms his brother was American killed in Saudi terrorist attack

<p>The sole American killed in a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia over the weekend was a former Kentucky resident who has been in the oil-producing nation since 1976, his brother said.</p><p>Charles Floyd of Stone Mountain, Ga., confirmed that his brother, Frank Floyd, was one of the 22 people killed in the attack by al-Qaida militants on a residential complex in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.</p><p>While he had lived in the Middle East for decades, he spent part of his childhood in Elizabethtown and graduated in 1963 from the now-closed Elizabethtown Catholic High School, friends and family members said Monday.</p><p>The family eventually moved away from Hardin County, Charles Floyd said.</p><p>Frank Floyd left for Saudi Arabia in 1976. For the past 15 years, he had worked with Resources Sciences Arabia Ltd., a company that provides contract workers for oil companies, and most recently was deputy general manager of marketing, The News-Enterprise of Elizabethtown reported Tuesday.</p><p>Al-Qaida militants stormed the upscale Oasis residential compound on Saturday, killing some residents and taking others hostage. The standoff ended 25 hours later when helicopter-borne Saudi commandos attacked the militants. It was the worst terrorist act on Saudi soil in a year and the second in May to target its oil industry.</p><p>The 22 dead included Indians, Filipinos, Saudis, Sri Lankans, a Briton, an Italian, a Swede, a South African and a 10-year-old Egyptian. Twenty-five people of various nationalities were injured, and security forces evacuated 242 people from the compound, including residents not held hostage but trapped inside.</p>