Majid al-Majid was named as the Abdullah Azzam Brigades' leader in 2012
Majid
al-Majid, the commander of the al-Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades,
has died in custody in a hospital in Lebanon, state media say.
Majid al-Majid, a Saudi who is on Saudi Arabia's most-wanted-terrorists list, was arrested in Beirut recently.An army general told Associated Press the militant died of kidney failure.
The group has carried out attacks across the Middle East and claimed a bomb attack on Iran's Beirut embassy in November that killed 23 people.
The Iranian cultural attache was among the dead.
'Interrogated' Lebanese security sources said Majid al-Majid died in a military hospital in Beirut on Saturday, a day after going into a coma suffering from kidney failure.
It was only on Friday that the Lebanese authorities said that DNA tests had confirmed his identity.
Defence Minister Fayez Ghosn earlier confirmed the commander was being held by army intelligence in Beirut and was "being interrogated in secret". He refused to say when and how the arrest took place.
However, a Lebanese security source told the Reuters news agency that he had been captured with another Saudi militant and had been living in the southern city of Sidon.
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