Man sentenced to death for role in 2004 Yanbu terror attack

RIYADH: A man has been sentenced to death for killing six foreigners and a Saudi soldier in an Al-Qaeda attack in the city of Yanbu in 2004, local media reported on Tuesday.
The shooting at Swiss engineering firm ABB Lummus Global and a subsequent police chase killed two Americans, two Britons, one Canadian, one Australian and one Saudi. Three of the four attackers also died.
Reports did not name the man, saying on that he had assisted in the assault in Yanbu, an oil and petrochemicals hub on the Red Sea.
At the time, the only surviving attacker was named as Saudi national Mustafa Al-Ansari. The other three were all members of the same family.
Al Qaeda carried out a campaign of shootings and bombings against Western and state targets in the kingdom from 2003-2006, killing hundreds of people.
Saudi Arabia subsequently stamped out the insurgency and has since sentenced hundreds of convicted militants to prison terms or death. Dozens of them were executed on January 2.
Since 2014, Al-Qaeda’s ideological rival Daesh has been staging attacks in the kingdom, killing dozens, resulting in hundreds of arrests.