Top al-Qaida terrorist blows himself up in Saudi

A top al-Qaida terrorist wanted in connection with May’s Riyadh suicide bombings killed himself today, a Saudi Arabian official said.

Using a hand grenade Turki Nasser al-Dandani blew himself up along with two other militants when their safe house was surrounded in northern al-Jawf province, 550 miles north of the capital, said Arabiya satellite television.