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| Saudi foils arms smuggling from Yemen |
| 2004-03-08 |
| Saudi border guards have aborted an attempt to smuggle arms and explosives through the southern frontier with Yemen, reports said. The daily al-Riyadh Monday quoted security sources as saying border patrols monitoring the region of Jazan, south of the kingdom, confiscated large quantities of guns, ammunition and bombs in recent days. Saudi authorities tightened security on borders following terrorist attacks that hit Riyadh last May and November, killing 52 people. An official report released last week said border police arrested 150,000 infiltrators and confiscated large quantities of weapons and drugs over the past three months, mostly on the 1,800-kilometer-long (1,100 mile) Saudi-Yemeni border. Last report I saw said 3,000 arrested and I thought that was a lot. Now its 150,000 in 3 months. Thats an awful lot of people. I presume most are illegal immigrants. But with the Saudis fabled efficiency it must mean not many are getting through ;-). I also have difficulty with the ’an attempt’ in the first para, with 150k people although its probably just sloppy journalism not making clear that these are from different sources. |
| Posted by:Phil B |