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Arabia
Car explodes in Saudi Capital Riyadh: Interior ministry
2015-07-17
[AlAhram] A car went kaboom! at a checkpoint in Riyadh near Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's highest security prison at sunset on Thursday, killing the driver and wounding two security officials, the interior ministry said.

Saudi Arabia is a target for Death Eater groups including Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, which has called on supporters to carry out attacks in the kingdom and killed 25 people in two suicide kabooms at Shi'ite Moslem mosques in the country's east in May.

"While security officers were manning one of the security checkpoints on Ha'er Road in Riyadh, they directed the driver of a suspected car to stop. The driver initiated an kaboom which led to his death," the ministry said in a statement, adding the blast injured two officers.

The south from Riyadh to Ha'er prison, home to 1,375 detainees who were mainly convicted of Death Eater crimes, its director told Rooters during a visit there this month.

The road passes through southern suburbs of the city before a series of checkpoints start shortly before the prison, which is behind a series of high walls and fences accessed through several well-guarded gates.

The detention of thousands of Saudi Islamists accused or convicted of militancy over the past decade has angered many conservative Sunni Moslems in the kingdom, prompting some rare protests from 2011-13.

Two Saudis linked to a suicide kaboom in Kuwait last month took part in those protests, local media reported at the time.
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