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Al-Qaeda men arrested in Saudi Arabia

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has announced the arrest of 208 Al-Qaeda suspects in groups for planning attacks on security forces and oil installations, state television reported, quoting an Interior Ministry statement.

It said the suspects had formed six cells, including a cell of 18 militants planning to smuggle eight projectiles into the kingdom and a group that plotted to assassinate clerics and security force personnel.

Police also “foiled an imminent attack on an oil support installation in the Eastern Province after the perpetrators prepared themselves and set a date”, according to the report.

The suspects were rounded up in a series of pre-emptive operations against members of the “deviant” group, the official terminology for Al-Qaeda suspects, said the Interior Ministry. The statement said that among the 208 arrested persons, more than half were linked to groups outside the country that recruit militants and send them to the various troubled regions around the world for fighting and then return to Saudi Arabia to “spread sedition and chaos”. — Xinhua

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