Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Pakistan denied an al Qaeda claim that a suicide attacker who bombed the Danish embassy in Islamabad last month was a Saudi, in comments published on Wednesday. "No Saudi was involved in the terrorist attack against the Danish embassy in Pakistan," Ali Awadh Assiri said, quoted by the Saudi-owned Pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat.
"The attacker was not even Arab. According to documented official information, the features of the attacker were not close to Arab features," he said. A senior al Qaeda leader said in a television interview aired on Monday that the suicide attacker came from Saudi Arabia.
Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, an Egyptian al Qaeda commander based in Afghanistan, told Pakistan's private TV channel that the bomber was a young man who had come to the region to wage holy war in Afghanistan or Kashmir. "This young martyr came from the holy land of Mecca to wage jihad in Afghanistan or Kashmir, but when infidels committed blasphemy he did not like to live with that insult," Al-Yazid said.