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Thursday, 11, November, 2004 (28, Ramadhan, 1425)

Kingdom Makes Remarkable Headway in Fight Against Terror: Naif

P.K. Abdul Ghafour & Essam Al-Ghalib, Arab News J

EDDAH, 11 November 2004 — Saudi Arabia has made remarkable headway in its war on terrorism as it has succeeded in stripping terrorists of their capabilities to carry out major attacks, Interior Minister Prince Naif said.

The government has moved beyond reacting to the militants “to stripping the terrorists of all means of carrying out criminal acts,” Okaz Arabic daily quoted the minister as saying yesterday. The minister’s statement came after security forces killed one suspected terrorist and arrested three others in a shootout early on Tuesday in Jeddah. The three included a foreign national.

Prince Naif said the government was successful in “exposing the ideology and lies” of the deviant group, a reference to sympathizers of the Al-Qaeda terror network in the Kingdom.

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http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=54339&d=11&m=11&y=2004