Saudis make several arrests in al Qaeda plot

Arab News:

Saudi security forces have arrested an Al-Qaeda-linked group of people planning to carry out terrorist attacks during the annual pilgrimage, Al-Arabiya satellite channel reported yesterday. Informed sources told the channel that the arrests took place in different cities of the Kingdom.

“The group aimed to trouble the security of the pilgrimage,” which attracted nearly three million Muslim faithful from around the world this year, the television report said. Members of the group, whose number was unknown, were arrested “three days before the start of the Haj season”, or at the end of last week, the sources told the Dubai-based channel.

The new disclosure came after the Interior Ministry announced last month the arrest of 208 terror suspects, including 32 terror financiers. Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said the arrests took place following pre-emptive operations carried out by security forces over the last few months.

“Security forces foiled an impending attack on a support oil facility in the Eastern Province,” the spokesman said, adding that an eight-member cell led by an expatriate man was behind the plan.

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An additional 18 were arrested with missiles for use in terror attacks and 22 were arrested in a plot to attack "Islamic scholars." It has been a bad year for al Qaeda plots with many being foiled in the UK, US and Germany. With their ongoing failure in Iraq, the al Qaeda brand appears to be failing world wide.

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