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Monday, July 4, 2016

Suicide Bombings continue in Saudi Arabia: 3 so far

Deadly Suicide Bombings Across Saudi Arabia Continue Deadly Week of Terror
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Jul 4 2016, 7:12 pm ET

Suicide Bombings Across Saudi Arabia Continue Deadly Week of Terror

by Tim Stelloh
Deadly ISIS Attacks Continue With Suicide Bombings in Saudi Arabia 2:01
Suicide bombs rocked two Saudi Arabian cities on Monday, killing at least four security officers, wounding five other people — and coming just hours after authorities in a third city stopped a bomber just feet from the U.S. Consulate.
Explosions near Saudi Arabia mosque reported 3:40
The explosions capped a week of bloodshed across the region, with Baghdad experiencing what is believed to be its worst attack in a decade and Bangladesh witnessing a gruesome standoff that left 20 hostages dead, many of them foreigners.
Bomber dies in explosion near US consulate in Saudi Arabia 2:39
In Saudi Arabia, the attacks began Sunday night, when a suicide bomber was stopped by security personnel in a hospital parking lot about 30 feet from the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah.
The bomber detonated an explosive belt, killing himself and "slightly" injuring two officers, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement. No Americans were hurt and all State Department personnel were accounted for.
Hours later, on the other side of the country, a pair of suicide bombers attacked the Persian Gulf city of Qatif, a Ministry of Interior source confirmed to NBC News. Details of casualties in the largely minority Shi'ite city were not immediately available.

Image: Smoke rises from Al-Masjid an-Nabaw in Medina, Saudi Arabia on July 5.

Smoke rises from Al-Masjid an-Nabaw in Medina, Saudi Arabia on July 5. via Twitter
Shortly after that, four security officers were killed — as well as a suicide bomber — near the security headquarters of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, a site considered to be the second holiest in Islam.
The attack occurred in a parking lot outside the mosque, during Maghreb prayers, when the bomber pretended to break the Ramadan fast with a group of security personnel, al Arabiya reported.
No one had claimed responsibility for the string of bombings, but since 2014, ISIS has stepped up its attacks in the Saudi kingdom, with bombings and shootings that have killed scores of security officials and Shi'ites.
Officials in Iraq and elsewhere have attributed the recent wave of suicide bombings linked to ISIS as a reaction to its own battlefield losses.
That counterattack appeared to stretch a bit further on Monday, as Malaysian authorities announced the country's first ISIS attack, the Associated Press reported.
That grenade blast at a bar last week killed eight and was carried out by two men instructed by a Malaysian man fighting with ISIS in Syria, according to the AP.
The bar, which was playing a soccer match at the time of the explosion, was described as un-Islamic by the militants.
Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have all condemned blasts in Saudi Arabia.
Egypt's Foreign Ministry said the attack confirms that terrorism "knows no religion or belief or any meaning of humanity."
A Foreign Ministry official in the UAE was quoted in the state-run WAM news agency as saying the stability of Saudi Arabia "is the main pillar of the stability of the United Arab Emirates and the whole of the Gulf Arab region."
The secretary general of the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which is headquartered in Saudi Arabia, said the attacks are an attempt to destabilize the kingdom. Iyad Madani says the kingdom's security is "the cornerstone of security and stability in the region a
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