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Prince Nayef calls on all Soddies fighting in Iraq to come home
Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz has called on all countries who have forces in Iraq to hand over any Saudis who went there to take part in the insurgency or commit suicide bombings.In a press conference in Al Baha region, he also called on Iran and Syria to cooperate with Saudi Arabia in this respect. Prince Nayef did not rule out the possibility of the return of the so-called Arab Afghans' phenomenon, where fighters are recruited from the Arab world to fight a common foreign invader and expressed his determination to deal severely with any Saudi found involved in the escalation of the situation in Iraq. "We will take all matters into consideration and will minimise the number of Saudis leaving for Iraq," he said. He added that Saudi Arabia could not control the whole situation as there are some Saudi citizens who leave for other countries and may go from there to Iraq. As for applying tight measures around hotels in Saudi Arabia to prevent terrorist acts such as those in Jordan, Prince Nayef said that his ministry made all necessary precautions against such explosions. He noted that the precautions are not limited to hotels, but cover also all hospitals, ministries and several other facilities. Prince Nayef reiterated that his country would spare no efforts to fight terrorism affirming that it would contribute with all its sources to stem out all forms of international terrorism. He pointed out that the campaigns staged by his ministry against illegal residents are very costly and called on all Saudi citizens to contribute to the effort. He disclosed that there is a plan to expand the administrative regions in Saudi Arabia. But he did not give any further details about the number of the new proposed administrative regions. As to whether Saudi Arabia has taken any special measures following the decision to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO), he said the government has set up a mechanism that its WTO membership would not affect its beliefs or national sovereignty. Meanwhile, the Saudi National Guard has revealed that it seized over the past nine months 163 weapons, six rocket launchers, 53 revolver pens, 14,090 explosive bundles, 67kg of explosives, 14,050 dynamite sticks, 11 bombs and 513,667 bullets. According to a statistical report released yesterday, the seized items also include two vehicles, nine motorcycles, 308,823 Iraqi dinars, $556, 44,611 Yemeni riyals, SR1,013,585. In addition 2,765 smugglers and 393,067 infiltrators were arrested. The report revealed that 8,891 drug tablets, 3,727,824kg of Qat, 42,270 captagon tablets and 3,340 bottles of wine were seized. Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-11-14 |
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