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The supposed chief of Al-Qaïda in Saudi Arabia killed in Riyadh - the supposed chief of Al-Qaïda in Saudi Arabia, the Morrocan Younès Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Hayari, was killed in a fixing Sunday in Riyadh with the Saoudi forces of safety, brought back the chain of television Al-Arabiya. "the chief of network Al-Qaïda in Saudi Arabia, (the activist) Moroccan required Younès Al-Hayari, was killed", brought back the chain, with mainly Saoudi capital, which emits since. Little before, Al-Arabiya had made state of a death and two wounded among the required islamist activists at the time of a fixing in the...

A Falls Church man accused of conspiring to assassinate President Bush met several times with an al Qaeda leader in Saudi Arabia who once was the target of a global manhunt and a key suspect in an attack that killed nine Americans in Riyadh, law-enforcement authorities said. Ahmed Omar Abul Ali, scheduled for a detention hearing tomorrow in federal court on charges of providing material support to al Qaeda, met with Zubayr al-Rimi in Saudi Arabia between September 2002 and June 2003...

Arabia: victory with Ryad of candidates supported by the islamists RYAD - the local elections organized in Saudi Arabia saw the victory in the Ryad capital of several candidates supported by the islamists, according to provisional results'. Some of beaten intend however to dispute this result. Several beaten candidates affirmed that the names of six of the seven winners were reproduced on a list diffused by portable telephone and Internet during the countryside, which makes them think that the latter had the support of the islamists. One among them, Zafer Al Yami, expressed the intention to dispute these results....

RIYADH (AFP) - A Yemeni considered to be closely linked to terror chief Osama bin Laden was one of seven militants killed in Wednesday's shootout with Saudi security forces in Riyadh, a security source told AFP. "Ibrahim Ahmad Abdel Majeed al-Reemy, a Yemeni national, was among the seven militants killed on Wednesday evening," the source said Reemy, who does not figure on the Saudi kingdom's most-wanted list, is a "big shot in Al-Qaeda and is believed to be the link between the organisation in Saudi Arabia and bin Laden himself," the source said. Wednesday's shootout took place after two car...

Oil prices surged nearly $US2 a barrel Wednesday following two bombings in the capital of Saudi Arabia and after the US government reported that winter fuel supplies shrank last week.Light crude for February delivery was up $US1.87 at $US43.64 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In London, Brent crude fell 90 cents to $US39.17 per barrel on the International Petroleum Exchange. While down considerably from the October peak above $US55 a barrel, crude futures are 33 per cent more expensive than a year ago, contributing to higher prices for gasoline, heating oil and other fuels. Fears of...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A suicide attacker tried to drive his bomb-laden car into the Interior Ministry complex, and militants set off another bomb and exchanged fire with police late Wednesday in Riyadh, capital of a kingdom at war with Muslim extremists. The first explosion at about 8:35 p.m. shattered windows and sent smoke and flames rising into the nighttime sky near the ministry in central Riyadh. Police officials said a suicide car bomber had tried to storm the ministry, but failed and instead exploded his car just outside. A number of policemen were injured, a ministry official said,...

RIYADH, 29 December 2004 — Three suspected terrorists were killed and another was injured in a gunbattle with security forces in the capital last night, security sources told Arab News. The encounter took place near Al-Salam Park, close to the Higher Court in Riyadh’s Al-Deera district. According to the sources, the terrorists opened fire on policemen who were in their hot pursuit near a gas station. The police returned fire in which the three terrorists were killed. There was no word on the casualties among the men in uniform. The sources added that some of the terrorists managed to escape...

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http://www.globalterroralert.com http://www.globalterroralert.com/saudi0904-02.pdfGlobalterroralert.com (9/21/04): Al-Qaida's Committee in Saudi Arabia has taken credit for last week's murder of Briton Edward Stuart Muirhead-Smith, 56 years old, in the parking lot of the Max shopping center in the eastern part of Riyadh. Saudi media sources reported that two un-identified male perpetrators in a white Toyota car shot Smith four times as he sat in his own vehicle. The men quickly fled and have remained at large from pursuing Saudi security forces.

How Islamists hijacked the Chechen separatist movement.THREE ROADS led to the horror at Beslan in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, in which at least 330 people, most of them children, died: one road beginning in Grozny, the capital of neighboring Chechnya; one road beginning in Moscow, to the north; and one road beginning in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, far to the south. Americans need to know how such frightful events are connected to the global war on terror, and the degree to which they must threaten our own peace of mind. The main culprits in Beslan were...

Saudi Arabia Al-Qaida Cell Acknowledges Deaths of Three Members, Says Battle Was to Defend Leader's Wife By Sarah El Deeb/Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A message purportedly from an al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia surfaced Monday with the acknowledgment that three of its militants were killed in a shootout last week with security forces. In the statement, which was found on Islamic Web sites, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula gave its own account of the July 20 raid on a house in Riyadh, describing it as battle to defend the wife and family of their leader. The house was...

Saudi Official Denies Wanted Militant Killed Abdullah Al-Shihri/Associated Press Jul 1, 2004 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A senior Saudi official denied Thursday that a militant killed in a shootout with police was a cleric believed to be the chief ideologist for al-Qaida in the region. A security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press Wednesday in Riyadh that the man slain during a car chase and shootout with police was Abdullah Mohammed Rashid al-Roshoud, one of Saudi's most wanted terror suspects. Saudi and other Arab TV stations and newspapers also widely reported that al-Roshoud had been...

Muqrin was killed with two associates on Friday An ex-Saudi policeman has become leader of the al-Qaeda militant group in Saudi Arabia, according to media reports from the troubled kingdom. Saleh al-Oufi, 38, will take over from Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, who was killed by police on Friday. Saudi security forces have been hunting al-Qaeda members in Riyadh, following the execution of a US hostage. Saudi analysts say the new leader will be a formidable foe as he been a key figure in the group since 1985. Al-Qaeda is believed to have been behind the abduction and beheading of US defence...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A purported al-Qaida statement Saturday claimed the terror group had kidnapped one American man in the Saudi capital and killed another American. It threatened to treat the captive as U.S. troops treated Iraqi prisoners. Earlier Saturday, an American identified by the U.S. Embassy as Kenneth Scroggs was shot and killed as he pulled his car into the garage of his Riyadh home. The statement claimed al-Qaida had killed an American at his house but did not identify him. The U.S. Embassy confirmed an American was missing but would not identify him. "We do have reports...

LONDON: The BBC reporter shot nine times in an al-Qa'ida ambush in Saudi Arabia that claimed the life of his camerman remained in a coma last night. Frank Gardner, the BBC's security correspondent, underwent further surgery yesterday after having two bullets removed from his abdomen, one from his leg and another from his hand. A senior BBC executive said: "It was a touch and go for a while but doctors are confident he will pull through." Saudi police are investigating suggestions the gunmen were tipped off about the presence of the BBC team in a stronghold of al-Qa'ida supporters in...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Gunmen who killed a BBC cameraman and critically wounded a senior correspondent have been linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, a Saudi diplomat says. "It is the same fanatical group. They are linked to al Qaeda," Jamal Khashoggi, the media adviser to Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi ambassador in London, told Reuters on Monday, referring to recent attacks in the Saudi cities of Khobar and Yanbu. The BBC identified the dead cameraman as Simon Cumbers, 36, and the wounded man as security correspondent Frank Gardner, 42.

One Briton has been shot dead and another injured after gunmen opened fire in a district of the Saudi capital Riyadh. The city's police chief told a news agency two British people had been shot by "unknown elements" at around 1740 (1540 BST) on Sunday. "One was killed and the other wounded," he said. The UK Foreign Office said local embassy staff were checking the reports, but had no further details. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "The Saudi authorities have confirmed that one British national was killed and one injured in an attack in Riyadh."

RIYADH (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim militants shot at U.S. citizens in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh on Wednesday just days after a major al Qaeda attack in the country killed 22 people, mainly foreigners, Western diplomats said. "There has been shooting in Riyadh against Americans this morning," said a diplomat. "We have no word on casualties and no details at this moment." In a separate incident, Saudi forces killed two gunmen after clashes in the Western city of Ta'if, security sources said. Dubai-based Al Arabiya television said the two men were wanted "terrorists" but that they were not linked to...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi state television turned to interviewing everyone from children to intellectuals to try to rally citizens against terrorism as it reported Saturday on the latest outburst of extremist violence in the kingdom. Suspected Islamic militants fired inside two office compounds in the oil city of Khobar, 250 miles northeast of Riyadh, Saturday morning, killing at least 10 people before taking dozens of hostages at a luxury resort. As the hostage standoff continued into the night, Saudi TV's last newscast of the day included brief interviews with six men, apparently security officers, injured in Khobar. They...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi security forces clashed with five wanted militants at a suspected hideout north of Riyadh on Thursday, killing four and wounding the fifth, a security official said. A security agent was also killed and two others were wounded in the shootout at a house outside the town of Buraida, the official said on condition of anonymity. Buraida is one of the kingdom's fundamentalist strongholds. The official said the men were "misguided individuals," a euphemism Saudi officials use to refer to Islamic militants. He said weapons and ammunition were found at the scene. It was not immediately...