Internet claim links al-Qaida with Riyadh ambush

A statement that has surfaced on the internet, purportedly from Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network, claims responsibility for an attack on two American military personnel in Riyadh.

The statement, dated Wednesday and signed, “Al-Qaida’s network in the Arab Peninsula”, said the group was responsible for a shooting that day that targeted two Americans outside a compound in the Saudi Arabian capital.