Police have arrested a second suspect in the twin blasts that struck Jeddah on Sept. 11, the Interior Ministry reported yesterday, adding that the man belonged to a deviant group. Salah Al-Najjar was arrested in the northwestern city of Tabuk late Thursday, after he escaped a raid on Monday which resulted in the arrest of fellow suspect Rida Al-Najjar, a ministry official said.
| Both of them al-Najjars? Y'think they're related? Husband and wife, maybe? |
A gunbattle that ensued Monday's police raid in Tabuk injured Rida and three security officers. "Security forces continued searching for Salah Al-Najjar and he was spotted in a residential apartment in Tabuk," the official said, adding the man did not resist arrest.
"Investigations that followed the two blasts in Jeddah suggested Rida's involvement," Brig. Mansour Turki, the ministry's spokesman said, adding that Salah's name emerged as a result of Monday's raid. Results of preliminary investigations have proved that Rida is an expert in forging documents and IDs used for terrorist operations. The twin blasts outside two Jeddah banks associated with the United States and Britain, caused limited damage but were "undoubtedly terrorist attacks," the AFP news agency quoted Turki as saying. |