We bombed Saudi capital - al-Qaida

The al-Qaida terror network has claimed responsibility for the suicide car bombing in which 17 people were killed in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Saturday, an Arab newspaper reported.

“We struck Muhaya compound,” an an email from a purported al-Qaida operative Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj said, according to the Al-Majalla newspaper. It was the first claim of responsibility for the bombing.