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| Qaida Suspects Arrested in Saudi Arabia |
| 2013-08-10 |
| [An Nahar] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! two suspected members of al-Qaeda who may have been plotting against Western embassies in the Middle East, the interior ministry announced Thursday. The two men, a Yemeni and a Chadian national, had contacts with the Yemeni branch of the terror network, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), state news agency SPA quoted ministry front man General Mansour al-Turki as saying. The Chadian suspect had been expelled from Saudi Arabia but returned with a passport issued by another country, Turki added. "The two suspects may have been implicated in the threats against Western embassies in the region," he said. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, at the heart of the security alert that has shut a number of U.S. and Western missions in Sanaa, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, is seen by Washington as the most active branch of the jihadist network. It was formed in January 2009 as a merger of the Yemeni and Saudi branches of al-Qaeda and is led by Nasser al-Wuhayshi. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal citing an anonymous U.S. official, Wuhayshi criminal masterminded the plot. |
| Posted by:Fred |