Amman, Nov 10: Jordan's King Abdullah II has strongly condemned the devastating suicide bomb attack in Riyadh that killed at least 17 people and wounded some 120, including eight Jordanians, the press reported today. Jordan "condemns this criminal explosion and rejects any attempt to destabilise Saudi Arabia," Abdullah said in a telephone call late yesterday to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz, reports quoting official Petra news agency said. The Jordanian monarch stressed that "Islam is not guilty of such terrorist attacks which undermine the reputation of Islam and its peaceful principles", the King added. Eight Jordanians, including two five-year-old siblings and their parents, were among some 120 people injured in the attack, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried late Sunday by Petra. Saudi Arabia suspects militants of the Muslim extremists al-Qaeda movement of being behind the Saturday midnight attack.
Bureau Report