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SAUDIS KILL AL QAIDA LEADER


ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Saudi Arabia said it has killed a member of the Al Qaida leadership.

Saudi officials said Abdul Majid Bin Mohammed Abdullah Al Muni was a member of Al Qaida's Shura Council and the chief ideologue of the movement. The council was said to determine the policy of the Al Qaida network in its campaign against the Arab kingdom.

Al Muni was No. 18 on the Interior Ministry's list of 26 top Al Qaida insurgents. The ministry said Muni and two other operatives -- Issam Bin Muqbil Al Otaibi and Abdul Hamid Bin Abdul Aziz Al Yehya -- were killed in a shooout in Riyad on Oct. 12. The battle took place near a foreign housing compound.

Officials said they have not yet determined whether the Al Qaida squad was preparing an attack on the foreign compound in Riyad. Over the last 18 months, Al Qaida launched several lethal strikes on foreign housing compounds that contained Western nationals.

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