Saudi Arabia sentences eight to death for 2003 attacks -SPA

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(Adds new trial) RIYADH, April 21 (Reuters) - A Saudi Arabian court on Monday sentenced three more men to death, raising the number of people condemned for their involvement in a suicide attack on expatriate residential compounds in Riyadh in 2003 to eight, the state news agency reported. A**ther 40 people were sentenced to terms of two to 35 years for assisting the attacks in **rtheastern Riyadh, which were part of a three-year campaign by al Qaeda that killed hundreds and was aimed at destabilising U.S. ally Saudi Arabia. Riyadh crushed the campaign in 2006, detaining more than 11,000 people in its security prisons, it has said. The remnants of that al Qaeda group fled to Yemen where in 2009 they joined local militants to form Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, **w seen as one of the most dangerous branches of the movement around the world.

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