| Submit your comments on this article |
| Arabia |
| Makkah teens arrested for Al-Qaeda link |
| 2003-02-27 |
| Saudi Arabia has arrested seven more men for suspected links with Saudi-born Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network, Interior Minister Prince Naif has announced. "The arrests were made a few days ago in Makkah and the seven are suspected of belonging to this group," he told Al-Watan Arabic newspaper. The men — mostly young Saudis, some of whom are still in secondary school — are being interrogated to determine if they had links with Al-Qaeda or any other terrorist organization. "We will know within a few days," the minister said, adding that security officers had also confiscated arms from the suspects. The Ministry of Interior has also announced an SR500,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the gunman who shot Jouf Deputy Governor Dr. Hamad Al-Wardi in Jouf on Feb. 17. Prince Naif dismissed the idea that there are "sleeping terrorist cells" in the Kingdom. "One or two people are arrested here and there but we don't have what is known as sleeping cells," he clarified. He added that most of the arrested Al-Qaeda suspects in the Kingdom had previously visited Afghanistan. I didn't think they needed sleeper cells in Soddy Arabia. I thought the Bad Guys and the cops just politely ignored each other, each pretending the other didn't exist. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |