Saudi Arabia

Two suspected al Qaeda operatives were killed and another was detained in a shootout with police at a checkpoint in Jizan province on the southern border with Yemen. One policeman was also killed. The men were wearing burqas and had suicide vests, explosives, and weapons in their possession.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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