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Debated whether I should post this in Middle East forum but since terrorism is a global problem this looks like a good place. They do spread like maggots.
By Angus McDowall
RIYADH Tue Sep 2, 2014 12:58pm EDT
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has detained 88 people, more than half of them Saudis, on suspicion of plotting "terrorist" attacks at home and abroad, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
A ministry statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency said the ministry had been following a number of suspects in view of what it called the spread of "strife and sick ideas" that lured members of the community to "places of strife".
Some of the suspects had links to the Islamic State group operating in Syria and Iraq, to the Nusra Front group in Syria or to the al Qaeda branch in Yemen, Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour Turki told Reuters after a news conference.
"They showed their support to the organizations in Syria and Iraq and also in Yemen, and they wanted to get involved in their activities. Some of them tried to get ... instructions of what he should do, how he should act inside the kingdom," said Turki.
He said those who were in contact with militant groups overseas may not have also been in contact with each other.
Turki told the news conference that 48 of those arrested were Saudis and many had been planning assassinations.
Saudi Arabia says it arrests 88 for preparing terrorist raids Reuters
By Angus McDowall
RIYADH Tue Sep 2, 2014 12:58pm EDT
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has detained 88 people, more than half of them Saudis, on suspicion of plotting "terrorist" attacks at home and abroad, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
A ministry statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency said the ministry had been following a number of suspects in view of what it called the spread of "strife and sick ideas" that lured members of the community to "places of strife".
Some of the suspects had links to the Islamic State group operating in Syria and Iraq, to the Nusra Front group in Syria or to the al Qaeda branch in Yemen, Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour Turki told Reuters after a news conference.
"They showed their support to the organizations in Syria and Iraq and also in Yemen, and they wanted to get involved in their activities. Some of them tried to get ... instructions of what he should do, how he should act inside the kingdom," said Turki.
He said those who were in contact with militant groups overseas may not have also been in contact with each other.
Turki told the news conference that 48 of those arrested were Saudis and many had been planning assassinations.
Saudi Arabia says it arrests 88 for preparing terrorist raids Reuters
