Terrorism: Al-Qaeda threats Riyadh

DUBAI - Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has threatened to launch further attacks in Saudi Arabia after the failed attack on August 27 against a Saudi prince in a video posted Tuesday by the U.S. center monitoring Islamist websites (SITE).

•     "Expect the worst!" launched the leader of the extremist network, Nasser al-Whayshi, alias Abu Bassir in the video showing the bomber Abdullah Hassan Taleh Assiri who perpetrated the attack against Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdel Aziz, head of counter-terrorism in the kingdom.
  
      "Our heroes have woven their shrouds with your blood. If you can save your skin, do so. For the sake of Allah, they will climb your fortresses and will reach you where you least expect them," he adds.
  
      The video includes a telephone conversation that the bomber had with the prince, slightly wounded in the attack, to prepare his return from Yemen to Saudi Arabia, claiming to want to repent.
  
      The Saudi Ministry of Interior had published on September 1, passages of this conversation.
  
      Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which represents the branches of the Saudi and Yemeni extremist network since their merger in January, had claimed the attack by Assiri who blew himself up when he was hosted by Prince in his home in Jeddah (west).
  
      Member of the royal family, Prince Mohammed is behind the creation three years ago of a rehabilitation center destined to put on the right way Saudis activists freed from U.S. prison of Guantanamo and some Islamic radicals arrested in the country.
  
  Ennaharonline/ M. O.