Al-Qaida link sought in Qatar suicide attack

INVESTIGATORS are hunting for any clues to see if al-Qaida was behind the weekend suicide attack on a Qatar theatre that killed a Briton, the first such attack in the US-allied Gulf Arab state.

The Egyptian man rammed a car packed with explosives into the theatre near a British school in the capital, Doha.

The attack took place on the second anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, but there was no indication so far of any connection.