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Saudi court has sentenced a man to death and 19 others to prison terms of up to
25 years in connection with the 2004 armed assault on the U.S. Consulate in
Jiddah that killed five employees in an attack blamed on al-Qaida.
The
official Saudi Press Agency says another 35 suspects linked to the consulate
storming will face court hearings this week.
The
report late Sunday gave no further details on the alleged attacker sentenced to
death or when the execution could be carried out.
The
attack on the heavily guarded compound came amid a series of attacks by
al-Qaida-linked militants in response to crackdowns across Saudi Arabia. Gunmen
killed five locally hired consulate workers, and four attackers were fatally
wounded in the three-hour battle.
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