انتحاري فجّر نفسه بهاتف جوال داخل منزل الأمير محمد بن نايف

Quote: Saudi Royal Survives Attack Claimed By Qaeda Sign in to Recommend E-MailSend To Phone Print By REUTERS Published: August 28, 2009 Filed at 6:59 a.m. ET Skip to next paragraph RIYADH (Reuters) - A senior member of Saudi Arabia's royal family who is in charge of the kingdom's anti-terrorism campaign has survived a suicide attack by an al Qaeda-linked group. State news agency SPA said Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the deputy interior minister and son of the man thought likely to be the next crown prince, was meeting well-wishers on Thursday when a man blew himself up. The prince was not seriously hurt. The attack was the first to directly target a member of the royal family since the start of a wave of violence by al Qaeda sympathisers in 2003 against the U.S.-allied monarchy. "The attack indicates that the threat is out there waiting to happen -- sometimes at closer range than you would think," said one Western diplomat in Saudi, who declined to be named. "The royals will have plenty of reasons to worry in a country where weapons apparently find easy entry from porous borders to the north from Iraq or the south from Yemen." As security chief, Prince Mohammed is one of the most powerful men in the kingdom and is credited with the government's success in crushing the violence, helped by Western training.