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| Saudi Arabia Accuses 93 of Terrorist Links, Including to ISIS |
| 2015-04-29 |
| [NYTIMES] -- 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... has incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 93 people accused of plotting terrorist attacks since December, including a group described as having sought to strike the United States Embassy with a boom-mobile, the Saudi Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said in an statement that the suspects were accused of recruiting and training new members; testing explosives; gathering firearms; and plotting to attack residential areas and security facilities. They were arrested in six groups, it said, adding that most of the suspects had ties to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... bully boy group and nearly all were Saudi citizens. One of the 93 suspects is a woman. Saudi Arabia has joined an American-led coalition that is bombing the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, in Iraq and Syria, where the group has seized territory. The Saudis are also leading an Arab coalition carrying out For their part, the Islamic State's leaders have called on their supporters to mount attacks inside Saudi Arabia. There have been a series of mainly small-scale attacks in recent months. Saudi officials said last week that a pair of men accused of killing two coppers in a drive-by shooting had received support from the Islamic State. One of those suspects has been arrested; the other is on the lam. It was unclear why the Saudi authorities revealed the 93 arrests on Tuesday. They did not give the names of any suspects or provide any information about how or when the suspects would be tried. A front man for the United States Embassy in Riyadh declined to comment about the assertion that one group among those arrested was planning a boom-mobileing at the embassy. The embassy suspended consular services in Riyadh and at consulates elsewhere in the country on March 15 because of security concerns; the services were resumed a week later, but Americans were urged to take precautions. Another group consisted of 65 people, including two Paleostinians and a Yemeni, who had ties to the Islamic State and sought to spread its ideology and set up training sites for new recruits, the ministry statement said. |
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