 Over 220 people, including 92 suspected militants, have been killed in terror attacks in Saudi Arabia over the past two years, the interior minister said yesterday, giving for the first time an overall toll for the wave of attacks in the country.
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"The kingdom witnessed 22 criminal acts over the past two years, including bombings, attacks and abductions," Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz told an international counter-terrorism conference. "This resulted in the killing of 90 (civilian) citizens and (foreign) residents and the wounding of 507. Thirty-nine members of the security forces were martyred and 213 injured, while 92 from the deviant group (the official Saudi term for suspected Al Qaeda militants) were killed and 17 injured." Damage to property and installations from the attacks which began in May 2003 exceeded one billion riyals (BD100.5 million), he added.
The appeals court in Sanaa upheld the death sentence against a Yemeni and sentenced to death another who had been jailed over the 2002 bombing of the French oil tanker Limburg and other attacks. Huzam Saleh Mejalli's death sentence of last August was confirmed, while Fawaz Al Rabei, who had been given a 10-year jail term, was condemned to death. Both were also convicted of killing a policeman.
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