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Arabia
Saudi Arabia arrested 701 for 'oil attack' plots this year
2008-06-25
Saudi Arabia has arrested 701 Islamists in the past six months on suspicion of plotting attacks on oil industry installations, the interior ministry announced on Wednesday. Security forces 'carried out several operations against followers of the deviant ideology and arrested a total of 701 people of various nationalities,' said a ministry spokesman, quoted by the official SPA news agency. Of those arrested since the start of the year, '520 are still being held for their implication in the organisational and ideological plans of the deviant ideology'.

'Deviant ideology' is the term used by Saudi officials to describe Al-Qaeda.
Deviated from official Wahhabbi ideology in exactly what way ...
Last July, the interior ministry announced that it had started forming special security units to protect the country's oil infrastructure from terrorist attacks. In April 2007, the ministry said 172 terror suspects had been rounded up along with weapons and cash. Some of the militants were allegedly plotting airborne attacks on oil facilities and army bases. Security forces thwarted an alleged Al-Qaeda attack against Saudi Arabia's massive Abqaiq oil processing facility in February 2006. Two members of the security forces and two assailants were killed.
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