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Striking the Kingdom: ISIS Takes Credit for Deadly Saudi Mosque Bombing

2015-05-24 10:04:34       source:FOX News

May 23, 2015


"ISIS claimed credit for a suicide bombing that killed as many as 20 at a mosque deep inside Saudi Arabia Friday, in what would be the terrorist group's first attack on the Kingdom's soil, The Wall Street Journal reported.


The suicide bomber –wearing an explosives-laden belt under his clothes-walked into the Imam Ali mosque in the village of al-Qudaih in the kingdom’s Eastern Province and attacked worshippers commemorating the birth of Imam Hussain, a revered figure among Shiites, Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry said. "


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