Al Qaeda in Saudia Arabia gets another crippling blow

Reuters:

Four of five militants killed by Saudi security forces on Monday were on a most wanted list of al Qaeda-linked suspects, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.

It said in a statement that two of the men also took part in an al Qaeda attack on the world's biggest oil processing plant at Abqaiq in eastern Saudi Arabia last week.

The Saudi media said one of the militants was a leader of al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia.

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The five militants were killed in a dawn shootout on Monday after security forces besieged a villa in an eastern Riyadh area where several Western residential compounds are located.

The raid took place days after al Qaeda suicide bombers tried to storm the Abqaiq oil facility in the first direct strike on a Saudi energy target since the militant group launched attacks aimed at toppling the U.S.-allied monarchy in 2003. The kingdom is the world's biggest oil exporter.

Tuesday's statement means that almost all of the suspects on a list of 36 issued last year have been killed or arrested.

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Do these guys have anyone left to put out a media release now?

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