Kuwait, a major US ally in the Gulf, has banned Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” because it deems the movie insulting to the Saudi Arabian royal family and critical of America’s invasion of Iraq, an official said today.

An hotel was being searched today for clues to the killers of 22 people who died in a shooting rampage and hostage stand-off in eastern Saudi Arabia.

A WESTERN engineering firm yesterday said it was evacuating all 90 foreign staff from the Saudi city of Yanbu after gunmen shot dead five of their colleagues.

Saudi Arabia received assurances of help in the war on terror today after a suicide car bombing killed at least 17 people and injured dozens in the capital Riyadh.

A car bomb which killed at least five people and wounded more than 80 in an upmarket Riyadh neighbourhood bore the hallmark of an al Qaida attack, Saudi officials said today.

An Irish woman is believed to have been killed in the Saudi suicide bomb attacks that investigators have blamed on Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror group.

The suicide bombers responsible for four explosions in Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh which killed at least 29 people were believed to be the same men who escaped from police five days before, according to Saudi authorities.