KARACHI/ISLAMABAD - gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed a Saudi diplomat, in the city of Karachi Pakistan Monday police and the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia said, the second attack on the mission since the assassination of bin Laden increases tensions in the region.
Al-Qaeda is violently opposed to the Saudi Government and promised to avenge the killing of its leader, born in Saudi bin Laden by special forces us in a Pakistani military city on 2 May.
Four people motorcycle opened fire on the car of a Saudi diplomat, said a Karachi police officer. The diplomat, a safety low official ranking, went to the Consulate when the attackers struck.
"We condemn this attack." Person exercising this kind of attack can be a Muslim, the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz al-Ghadeer, told Reuters.
The Ambassador suggested "terrorists", a reference to groups of Muslim militants as al-Qaeda perpetrated the attack.
Shooting days after unidentified attackers launched two grenades in hand at the Saudi Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial hub. No one was injured in the attack.
Saudi Arabia, one of the strategic allies over to the United States, is world largest oil exporter and no sign that its security is threatened to be moved to world oil prices.
An official of the Saudi Ministry of the Interior, who refused to be identified, told Reuters in Dubai that security would be intensified to protect Saudi diplomats living in the areas of "dangerous".
Riyadh described the killing of the diplomat as a "criminal attack" and said that he investigate alongside the Pakistani authorities, told the news agency.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have long been close allies and Islamabad needs all the support it can get after that discovery of bin Laden's embarrassed the South Asian country unstable with an ailing economy.
"We trust the Pakistani authorities and hope that they will be identify terrorists and bring them to justice," said Ambassador al-Ghadeer.
"The authorities in Karachi are working very hard and trust us them.". We work together. "We have confidence that Pakistan will do its best to ensure that terrorists are captured and identified."
The Pakistani Taliban - who have close links with al-Qaeda - said that they could not confirm their combatants killed diplomat Saudi but expressed "full support" for the attack.
"Those who did, did a very good job because, like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia is also an American slave." In fact, it is two steps before Pakistan. "According to organizations participate in these activities, we fully support them, the Government", said a spokesman for the Taliban to an undisclosed location.
Theodore Karasik, based in Dubai, security analyst believes that the attack may have been retribution for the death of Osama bin Laden.
"Part of the doctrine of al-Qaeda is to attack Saudi Arabia." Part of the al-Qaeda (in the) objective of the Arabian peninsula and it certainly is and could be more and more in tourist sites of groups individuals Pakistani jihadist, "he says.
Activists swearing allegiance to al-Qaeda attacked Western targets, the Government sites and oil installations in Saudi Arabia, between 2003 and 2006.
Operations included suicide bombings at housing compounds West, the headquarters of the Saudi Interior Ministry in the capital Riyadh and petrochemical companies.
Saudi Arabia responded by a repression of security in 2007 and 2010, arrest of more than 170 suspects, including some trainee pilots in preparation for suicide attacks. Analysts described the campaign he managed at the time.
BIN LADEN FALLOUT
Commitment of Pakistan to the fight against militancy has been questioned after bin Laden was found in a town near the capital garrison - by some accounts for five years - before his death.
Some U.S. lawmakers have called for difficult action against a long-time ally, as a cut in the billions of dollars in aid us in Pakistan, whose support Washington needs to stabilize the neighbouring Afghanistan.
It is a priority policy for the American President Barack Obama because the United States will start a gradual withdrawal of the Afghanistan this year and it is not that the Afghan Taliban to resume again.
Nuclear-armed Pakistan is mounting U.S. pressed to crack down more difficult against the militants, including other al-Qaeda leaders as his al number of Ayman two-Zawahiri, who is long believed to hiding in the border area between Pakistan and the Afghanistan.
US Senator John Kerry will push Pakistani leaders during a visit to Islamabad Monday to explain how the bin Ladens was able to hide in their country, without further feeding Pakistani anger on the U.S. raid that killed the Chief of al-Qaeda.
Pakistan has said that he has sacrificed more than any other country to support the war on the militancy, launched after the attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. The Government said that it has lost more than 5,000 soldiers fighting al-Qaida and its allies.
According to the anti-secrecy WikiLeaks, Saudi Arabia sees military of Pakistan, who reigned for more than half the country's history and defines security and foreign policy, as the strongest for the stability of the country.
Civilian Governments, whose power now, are widely considered corrupt and incompetent.
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