Saudis Arrest 149 Al Qaeda Suspects
The AP reports:
Saudi authorities said yesterday that they arrested 149 Al Qaeda suspects in a months-long sweep and thwarted attacks inside the kingdom on government officials, media personalities, and civilian targets.
Saudi Arabia’s antiterror campaign has largely crushed Al Qaeda’s operations in the kingdom since a series of attacks there that began in 2003. Some key militants, however, fled across the southern border to Yemen, where the regional Al Qaeda branch has reestablished a stronghold from which to plot attacks on Saudi Arabia and beyond.
The new raids over the past eight months revealed that Al Qaeda-linked militants have also been able to maintain or rebuild an organizational structure inside Saudi Arabia with close links to militants in Yemen.
Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki said those arrested had organized themselves into three networks across the kingdom that had no knowledge of one another.Most of the suspects arrested were Saudis; 25 were foreigners, said Turki. One woman was among them.
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