Two Saudi men said they wanted to present a gift to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden before carrying out a May suicide bomb attack in Riyadh which killed 35 people, including nine Americans, a website said yesterday. They were among 12 of its citizens named by Saudi Arabia as the attackers who carried out the May 12 bombings against Western compounds in capital. The attacks were blamed on Saudi-born bin Laden?s al Qaeda network.

The message was carried on www.almokhtsar.com ? one of the Islamist websites in which al Qaeda followers have previously published messages. ?Oh Americans we have come to slaughter you so wait for us. This work is a gift to...the brothers in Jihad, to the prisoners in Cuba, the Gulf and everywhere in the world, and to my beloved, Sheikh Osama bin Laden,? the website quoted Mohammad bin Shazaaf al-Shiri as saying before the attacks.

Bin Laden?s al Qaeda has been blamed for the September 11, 2001 attacks which led to the war to topple the Taliban in Afghanistan. Some 650 al Qaeda and Taliban suspects are held in the Guantanamo Bay US military base in Cuba. ?The work we are doing today against God?s enemies, the Americans and others in Saudi Arabia, is but a response to God?s will and his prophet.?

The other man, Hazem Kashmiri directed his message to US troops: ?We promise that you won?t live in safety and all you?ll see from us is bombing, burning, demolishing homes, and chopping off heads.? Shiri accused the ruling Saudi family of being un-Islamic.