Report: Saudi Police Foil Airliner Attack - LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi security forces have seized light planes packed with explosives near Riyadh's King Khalid airport, foiling a plot by suicide pilots to blow up a Western airliner on the runway, a British newspaper said on Sunday. Two pilots apparently intended to crash their light planes into a Western jet as it taxied slowly on the tarmac, the Mail on Sunday quoted Patrick Mercer, homeland security policy chief for Britain's opposition Conservative Party as saying.
Saudi Arrests 4,000, Seizes Arms Near Yemen Border - Reuters Saturday, December 27, 2003; 10:16 AM - RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has arrested more than 4,000 people and seized large quantities of weapons and drugs in the south of the country, along the border with Yemen, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said on Saturday.
Saudi Arrests Five After Seizing Bomb-Making CDs - Reuters Thursday, December 25, 2003; 8:36 AM - RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi authorities, facing a wave of militant attacks, have arrested five people after raiding computer shops selling compact disks containing hidden bomb-making instructions, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.