Saudi Arabia says mosque attack planner killed in shootout
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Saudi Arabia says the man who planned a suicide bombing in July outside of the mosque where the Prophet Muhammad is buried is one of the two extremists killed in a shootout with police in Riyadh.
Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said Taie bin Salem bin Yaslam al-Saya'ari was killed Saturday by police in the capital's northern Yasmeen neighborhood.
The July 4 bombing outside of the Medina mosque killed four Saudi security force members and wounded five.
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Millions of Muslims from around the world visit the mosque every year as part of their pilgrimage to Mecca.
The same day, separate suicide bomb attacks targeted a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia and the U.S. Consulate in Jiddah.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency reported al-Turki's comments early Sunday.