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Youssef al Shihri, one of the two al Qaeda operatives killed in a shootout with police near the Yemeni border, was a former detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Al Shihri was on a list of the Kingdom™s 85 most wanted terrorists and recently contacted his family to have them pass along information of […]

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.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula threatened to conduct more suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia. “By Allah, they will climb your walls and will come to you from where you do not expect,” said Abu Baseer al Wuhayshi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, in a videotape released on the Internet.

The government ordered security at oil facilities, including the massive Abqaiq complex and the Ras Tanura terminal, to be stepped up after last week’s failed suicide attack that targeted the Deputy Interior Minister, Prince Muhammad bin Nayef. The Abqaiq facility was targeted with a suicide assault in February 2006.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula named the suicide bomber who died while attempting to assassinate Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the deputy minister of the interior who leads counterterrorism efforts. The bomber, who entered the country from Yemen, was named Abdullah Hassan Tali’ al Asiri and was on the kingdom’s list of 85 most wanted […]

A suicide bomber lightly wounded Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, the assistant interior minister, at a public Ramadan gathering in Jeddah. Nayef is responsible for Saudi Arabia’s counterterrorism program. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took credit for the attack.

Security forces detained 44 members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, including one foreign fighter. “The network includes a number of the theorists and believers of the deviant ideology and supporters of criminal acts,” Interior Ministry spokesman General Mansur Al Turki said.