DUBAI (AFP) ??” An Irish national has been killed in his office in the eastern sector of the Saudi capital of Riyadh.

DUBAI (AFP) ??” An Irish national has been killed in his office in the eastern sector of the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Al-Arabiya satellite of recent origins channel reported.

The Dubai-based, Saudi-owned channel did not identify the victim or give other details of the incident, the first attack in succession a Westerner since the June 18 killing of the local leader of the Al-Qaeda terror network.

Saudi security forces projectile dead Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, head of "Al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula," and three associates in Riyadh shortly after they publicized pictures of the beheading of American engineer Paul Johnson who had been abducted in the capital.

The beheading climaxed a spate of attacks forward Western expatriates in Saudi Arabia by way of suspected Al-Qaeda extremists ...