RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia's interior minister said Saturday that a slain militant suspected of involvement in the February killing of four French nationals was among the kingdom's most wanted terrorists. Saudi security troops on Friday shot dead a militant identified as Waleed bin Mutlaq al-Radadi in a gunbattle after the forces came under attack in a residential building north of the holy city of Medina, the kingdom's news agency said. One soldier was also killed and two were wounded.Al-Radadi was among the kingdom's 36 most wanted, a convict on the run, and his killing was not a coincidence but the ``normal result of security forces' endeavors'' to fight terrorists, the official Saudi Press Agency quoted Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz as saying.
| Too bad for Waleed that they didn't 'surround' him. |
Prince Nayef also called on other wanted militants to surrender. If they did not, he vowed that al-Radadi's fate would ``God willing (be) the destiny of every wanted'' militant.
After the killings of the Frenchmen, police said they arrested several suspects and were looking for two others, identified as Abdullah Thair Al Muhammadi and Nasser Al Balawi, but authorities have not said whether the attack was a case of terrorism. Al-Radadi was not identified as a suspect at the time.