Saudis arrest 149 terror suspects

[maddezmom]

Source: Al Jazeera

Authorities have arrested 124 Saudis and 25 foreigners, who were planning attacks on government and security officials.
Last Modified: 26 Nov 2010 14:36 GMT
Saudi Arabia has arrested 149 al-Qaeda link suspects, who were planning attacks on government and security officials, as well as on journalists.

"During the past eight months ... 124 Saudis and the other 25 foreigners - have been arrested," General Mansur al-Turki, interior ministry spokesman, told reporters on Friday.

Al-Turki said the cells had links with al-Qaeda groups in Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan.

The foreigners arrested included Africans and South Asians, and one woman was among the suspects, he said.

Their activities were spread across 19 cells in the early stages of formation that were dismantled by Saudi authorities


Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/11/20101126141332322538.html

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Saudi Arabia Makes Terror Arrests

RIYADH—Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, said Friday it arrested over the past eight months 149 alleged al Qaeda-linked militants accused of plotting attacks on government and security officials as well as journalist.

Those arrested, who belonged to 19 cells, included 124 Saudi nationals, Interior Ministry spokesman General Mansour al-Turki told reporters in the Saudi capital.

He declined to give details of the other nationalities.

The ministry also confiscated 2.24 million Saudi riyals (about $597,000) from arrested cells, he said.

In March, the Arab world's largest economy said it arrested 113 al Qaeda-linked militants accused of plotting attacks on oil facilities and security sites in the kingdom

more:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704693104575638392145524682.html

[slackmaster]

1. Not one of them is a three-year-old American girl, or an American little old lady

Or a 61-year-old guy from Michigan with a urostomy, or Uncle Jim with a cane.

Amazing.

[rasputin1952]

2. Not bad...

since this is where a lot of this stuff originates from. Now if Pakistan would get bin-Laden we'd see a marked decrease in this stuff...:hi:

Thing is to put them in prison, if they wind up dead, they become martyrs. Being captured and tossed into prison, they lose credibility. You have to fight this by their rules, our rules won't work. When we fought the Moro's in the Philippines and the Japanese during WWII, we should have learned the most basic tenets of any kind of war or diplomatic engagements...first, know your enemy.

[Turborama]

3. K&R! Now that must be goldmine of inside information, if they've been talking

I wonder if we'll find out any of these details in the forthcoming cables...

[ck4829]

4. And this time only *half* of them are really just political activists