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Car bomb kills 10 in Saudi Arabia

REUTERS, Riyadh
At least 10 people were killed and dozens wounded when a car bomb destroyed a Saudi security service building in the capital Wednesday, witnesses said.
Officials in Riyadh described it as a "terrorist attack" and Arab television said the body of suicide bomber had been found. One Saudi source said five car bomb attempts had been foiled in the past week but this, the sixth, got past tight security.
"The front of a building is blown off and smoke is still rising," a Reuters correspondent said from outside the building, which housed administrative offices for the secu-
rity forces.
People on the scene said they saw 10 bodies and dozens of wounded being carried into ambulances. Fires raged long after the blast, which left a deep crater and a street carpeted in debris from the shattered six-storey building.
"We believe it is a terrorist attack," a Saudi Interior Ministry source told Reuters. He said a car packed with explosives blew up in al-Murabaa district.
The kingdom, a key US ally and the world's largest oil exporter, is battling a tide of Islamist militancy linked to Saudi-born Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
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Last week, Washington ordered non-essential diplomats out of the Gulf state and warned Americans they should leave, citing fresh signals of possible attacks on US and Western interests.
Suicide bombings at foreign residential compounds in Riyadh killed 50 people last year, including nine Americans.
Ambulances rushed toward the site of Wednesday's blast and smoke billowed from damaged buildings in the area, which also houses state television and the Information Ministry.
The explosion gouged a deep crater in the road where dozens of blackened and twisted cars still smoldered and glass shards and concrete blocks lay thickly on the tarmac. Security forces cordoned off the area. Firefighters battled raging fires.
Dubai-based Arab satellite television channel Al Arabiya said a suspected suicide bomber was killed.
Saudi Arabia last week defused five cars rigged with explosives in Riyadh, security sources said. Suspected Muslim militants also killed at least five Saudi policemen last week.
"We succeeded in preventing
five like this but this one got through," the Interior Ministry source said.
Since Monday, police have been hunting a group of militants after gunbattles in which they also fired rocket-propelled grenades at police. The same group is believed to have killed four policemen at checkpoints.
Last week, one of Saudi Arabia's most wanted al-Qaeda militants, in a video carried on an Islamist Web site, called on Muslims to kill Americans everywhere and vowed attacks against Arab leaders allied to Washington.
Saudi Arabia has blamed the 2003 bombings at Riyadh residential compounds on al-Qaeda, which Washington accuses of the September 11 attacks on the United States three years ago.
US officials have praised recent Saudi efforts against militants, a contrast to earlier disquiet at perceived tolerance for radical Islam in Saudi Arabia -- 15 of the 19 suspected hijackers on September 11, 2001, were Saudi nationals.
Bin Laden, whose Saudi citizenship was revoked by the authorities, has often branded the kingdom's rulers as traitors to Islam and "infidel agents" of the United States.