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Police defuse grenade in Riyadh residential area
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Police defuse grenade in Riyadh residential area
Saudi security forces, battling a surge in Muslim militant violence, patrolled a residential suburb of Riyadh on Monday where police defused a grenade, Saudi security sources said.
The bomb was placed in a shop selling mobile phones in the middle-class, predominantly Saudi Sultana district near the Suweidi neighbourhood where police previously clashed with militants.
The militants are believed to be linked to Osama bin Laden?s al Qaeda network. At least 50 people have been killed in suicide attacks on Riyadh housing compounds since May 2003.
Dubai-based Al Arabiya television channel, which is partly Saudi owned, said police foiled a bomb attack on an electricity distribution unit in the area.
The Saudi newspaper al-Riyadh, quoting witnesses, said police had found the grenade inside the power supply box of a building.
?One of the residents of an adjacent building suspected the box so the police came and evacuated the whole block until they removed the grenade,? said the newspaper, which has close ties to the government. Security forces patrolled the area.
Saudi Arabia is bin Laden?s birthplace. Arabic television channel Al Jazeera aired on Sunday an audio tape purportedly from the al Qaeda leader in which he criticised the kingdom?s rulers and called them incompetent to defend Islam.
Last week, an unknown militant group called the al-Haramain Brigades claimed responsibility for trying to kill a Saudi police officer by a small bomb attack on his car. Nobody was hurt in the incident at the Salam residential district.
In December, a London-based Arab magazine said bin Laden had vowed to launch a ?back-breaking attack? on the United States before a Muslim feast which is celebrated on the last days of January or the first days of February.
Fahd al-Frayyan
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