Saudi authorities insisted that the car bomb in which a German man died was not a terrorist attack.
"There are no terror attacks against foreigners in our country. They (foreigners) are well looked after," Saudi intelligence chief Prince Nawaf bin Abdul Aziz told the local Al-Jazirah newspaper.
Prince Nawaf said Sunday's explosion was part of a feud among people involved in illegal trade. Deputy governor of Riyadh Prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz also ruled out any terror link to the explosion telling AFP, "it was not politically motivated."
German national W. Maximilian Graf, 56, an employee of a private communications company, was killed in the Saudi capital when an explosion ripped through his car.
For their part, diplomats said the bombs target the Western presence in the kingdom. "I find the statements by Saudi authorities somewhat unusual," a Western diplomat told AFP. "It is so because there has been no result on previous incidents, which targeted Westerners, although they happened long ago," said the diplomat. (Albawaba.com)
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