Al-Qaida fingerprints on blast

OSAMA BIN LADEN’S al-Qaida terror network was last night being blamed for the synchronised suicide bombings of western compounds in the Saudi Arabian capital that killed up to 91 people.

An angry US President George W Bush denounced the bombings as the work of “killers whose only faith is hate”. He vowed to find those behind “the killers and they will learn the meaning of American justice.” The attacks took place on Monday night, on the eve of US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s visit to Riyadh.

A sombre Mr Powell visited one the bomb sites yesterday. “This was a well-planned terrorist attack. It certainly has all the fingerprints of an al-Qaida operation,” he said.