Break Out the Virgins, Another Martyr is Coming Home

The folks fighting terrorism in Saudi Arabia have sent another martyr on a non-stop to Allah (h/t Little Green Footballs):

Security forces killed al-Qaida’s leader in Saudi Arabia, who topped the nation’s list of most-wanted militants, during a fierce gunbattle Sunday, an Interior Ministry official said.

Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari, a Moroccan, was killed during a dawn raid by security forces on an area in the capital where suspected militants were hiding, the official was quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency as saying. Three other unidentified suspects were arrested, and weapons, ammunition, computers and documents were seized, he said. The clashes took place in the Rawdah district, an upscale neighborhood in eastern Riyadh, Interior Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said.

The unidentified official quoted by SPA said al-Hayari headed Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network in the kingdom, which has been ravaged by terrorist attacks during more than two years of violence.

“He (al-Hayari) was nominated by his peers, and following the death of those preceding him, to be the head of sedition and corruption in the land,” the official said in the SPA report.

I'll bet there's a whole lot of shaking going on among the Saudi al-Qaida elite. I doubt if anyone's got their hand up hoping to be "nominated" by their peers to be the next guy at the top of the target list.