Saudi: More than 700 suspected militants arrested

Saudi: More than 700 suspected militants arrested this year
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Source: CCTV.com | 06-26-2008 08:45
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says Saudi authorities have arrested more than 700 suspected al-Qaida-linked militants since the beginning of the year.


Saudi police cordon off a house in Medina
after a shootout with a suspected Al Qaeda
terrorist in 2007. OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia
has arrested 701 Islamists in the past six
months on suspicion of plotting attacks on
oil industry installations.(AFP/File/Str)


The ministry says the militants from various countries were arrested in multiple waves, but a quarter were subsequently released.

It says some of the suspects planned a car bomb attack on an oil installation.

The ministry says police found money, weapons and ammunition owned by the suspected militants, who had buried some of it in remote areas.

Al-Qaida calls for attacks against the Saudi government, criticizing its alliance with the US and hoping to disrupt the flow of oil to the West.

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