SAUDI ARABIA: A senior al-Qaeda leader in Saudi Arabia issued a battle plan yesterday for an urban guerrilla war in the kingdom, which is already reeling from a recent spate of attacks on western and security targets.
The Arabic-language statement, which was posted on several Islamist websites and purportedly came from Abdulaziz al-Muqrin, gave a detailed list of steps that militants should take in order to succeed in their violent campaign against the Saudi royal family.
It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the statement, but Islamist sites have in the past carried similar messages from Muqrin, who is said to have taken over the leadership of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia after the killing earlier this year of Khaled Ali Ali Haj.
