Saudi Arabia: Mosque Attack Planner Killed in Shootout

Saudi Arabia on Sunday said police killed the man who planned a July attack on one of Islam's holiest sites, identifying him as a former scholarship student who abandoned his studies to join the Islamic State group in Syria.   The Interior Ministry said Taie bin Salem bin Yaslam al-Saya'ari died alongside another extremist in a shootout Saturday with officers in Riyadh, wearing a suicide bomb vest and clutching a machine gun.   It said he manufactured the suicide bomb...

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