Al Qaida commander dies in Saudi Arabia
Anti-terror forces have killed al Qaida’s Saudi Arabia commander in a gun battle.
The 90-minute battle in the eastern Rawdah district, an upmarket neighbourhood in the capital Riyadh, yesterday, was the latest blow dealt to Osama bin Laden’s group in Saudi Arabia, whose leaders have either been killed or captured since authorities launched an unrelenting offensive in 2003.
Moroccan Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari was killed in a dawn raid by security forces in an area where suspected militants were hiding, an interior ministry official said.
Three other suspected militants on a recently-issued list of 36 most-wanted terrorists were also arrested. Al-Hayari topped the list.
