| The Saudi branch of the Al-Qaeda extremist network has purportedly claimed the killing of an Irish national in Riyadh earlier this month, in a statement published on a website on Friday. "A Brigade of the mujahedeen in the Arabian peninsula killed the Irish engineer in his Riyadh offices," a group calling itself "Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula" said in its magazine, Sawt al-Jihad (Voice of the Holy War), reproduced by the website. Anthony Christopher Higgins, a civil engineer in the Saudi capital, was killed on August 3. "This big operation followed the Al-Saud (ruling family) government claims to have succeeded in reducing the activities of the mujahedeen in the Arabian peninsula," the group said. |