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Prince Nayef sez there ainât no Soddy terror camps
The Saudi Interior Ministry on Tuesday denied recent reports that authorities had found al-Qaida training camps in the Saudi desert.
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The comments by Interior Minister Prince Nayef contradict earlier reports by an official who told The Associated Press, but declined to be named for publication, that authorities discovered al-Qaida camps in the desert where militants were training for terror attacks. The daily Saudi Okaz also reported the discovery of the camps in early January. But its editor stressed they were not sophisticated operations but private resthouses used by the militants. "I would like to assert that there are no training or terror camps in the kingdom, not yesterday, not today," Nayef told reporters. The interior minister also rejected accusations that Saudi Arabia was a center for terrorism, saying the terroristsâ "thinking is alien to the kingdom," he said. "He who says the kingdom harbors terrorism should reconsider his words."
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Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-01-28 |
