http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=79960&d=30&m=3&y=2006
Thursday, 30, March, 2006 (29, Safar, 1427)
40 Terror Suspects Held in Sweep
Samir Al-Saadi, Arab News
JEDDAH, 30 March 2006 - Saudi security forces arrested 40 suspected
terrorists in three different operations around the Kingdom in the past two
weeks, the Interior Ministry announced yesterday. "It was not one operation but
a series of operations aimed at tackling terror early on," ministry spokesman
Gen. Mansour Al-Turki told Arab News.
Those arrested are suspected members of Al-Qaeda terrorist cells, some of
whom appear to have links to the Feb. 25 foiled attack on the Al-Abqaiq oil
refinery in the Eastern Province. The ministry has not released the names of
any of the detained suspects.
The ministry statement said that security forces tracked a number of
suspicious movements in various areas of the Kingdom by people who were
stockpiling weapons, providing material and financial support to the
terrorists' cause, and using the Internet to spread subversive propaganda and
promoting acts of violence.
In one operation, Saudi security forces tracked 19 suspects who were
eventually arrested. The suspects were arrested for "adopting the perverted
ideology and spreading it through the Internet plus executing criminal acts
along with providing financial support for those activities," said the ministry
statement.
In another operation, security forces arrested eight suspects linked to
the perpetrators of the failed Al-Abqaiq oil refinery attack where two vehicles
were stopped at the gate after a shootout that left two attackers and two
security officers dead.
The suspects allegedly provided members of the cell involved in the
attack with shelter, funds and propaganda that had been posted on the Internet.
Security forces confiscated weapons, documents, electronic devices and other
items.
In a third operation, 13 suspects were rounded up in the city of
Al-Abqaiq. In one of their hide-outs authorities discovered 99 Russian-made
grenades, 22 tear gas grenades, 18 Kalashnikovs, four flares, 131 machine-gun
magazines and two hunting rifles and a metal detector. In addition to the
weapons and explosives charges, the suspects have also been accused of
fund-raising for their cause. Saudi security forces also discovered and
disarmed explosive devices planted in two separate vehicles near the country's
largest oil refinery at Al-Abqaiq, an Arabic local daily newspaper reported
yesterday.
The paper said security forces broke into a house Tuesday in the town of
Al-Muntaar where Saudi Arabian Oil Company employees live to find two
booby-trapped cars with the company's logo on them.
The daily said several bombs, machine guns and explosive materials were
found, adding that the owner of the house was arrested and was being
interrogated.
Al-Turki said that there were only two terror suspects at large from a
list released by the Interior Ministry in June of known suspected terrorists
believed to have been in the Kingdom. "If we see that there is a need to issue
a new list in the upcoming two weeks we shall," said Al-Turki. "It depends on
our investigation."
The leader of the Al-Qaeda network in Saudi Arabia, Fahd ibn Faraj
Al-Joweir, was among five militants killed in a shootout in the Al-Yarmouk
district of Riyadh on Feb. 28. Al-Joweir was accused of being behind the foiled
attack on the Al-Abqaiq refinery three days earlier. Two terrorists were killed
in the attack when their two car bombs exploded.
The Al-Qaeda terrorist network claimed responsibility for the February
attack in a statement published on an Al-Qaeda website, and announced
preparations for further attacks on the Saudi oil industry
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