UPDATED ON:
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
19:53 Mecca time, 16:53 GMT
News Middle East
Saudi crackdown on terror suspects
Interior ministry says attacks on oil installations were being planned [AFP]
Saudi Arabia has over the past six months arrested 701 people suspected of
plotting attacks, officials have said.
Releasing the information, the country's interior ministry said in a statement
the fighters had plotted attacks against oil installations in the kingdom.
Among those arrested, 520 are still in detention.
The interior ministry statement read out on Saudi television said those
detained were of various nationalities and were part of a wider plot managed
from abroad.
The statement said: "Security forces managed to arrest one cell in the Eastern
Province led by African residents ... their concern was to get close to people
working in the oil sector in order to find work in oil installations.
"They planned in fact to attack an oil installation and security target with
rigged cars [car bombs]."
Other cells were said to have been broken up which planned attacks on economic
targets in the world's largest oil exporter.
Foreign co-ordination
Some of the plots were said to have been hatched in co-ordination with Ayman
al-Zawahiri, the al-Qaeda second-in-command.
The statement said that those organising people to come from abroad had taken
"advantage of the facilities granted to the Muslim faithful to come to Mecca
for the annual pilgrimage or to do the omra," or minor pilgrimage".
One cell member was said to have been found with a taped message from
al-Zawahiri.
The kingdom has suffered several attacks blamed on al-Qaeda and mainly
targeting westerners since 2003, but a crackdown has quelled attacks over the
past two years.
Source: Agencies
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