RIYADH — Saudi Arabia said on Monday it has rounded up 28 more Al-Qaeda suspects after arresting an equal number in December who plotted "terrorist" attacks and were in contact with the group's number two Ayman al-Zawahiri.
This brings to 56 the total number of members of the same group who have been detained and are linked to the Al-Qaeda leadership abroad, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the state SPA news agency. The group had been instructed by the Al-Qaeda leadership to launch a "terrorist campaign" inside the kingdom, it said.
Interrogation of the first batch held in December, whose arrest was announced following an alleged plot to carry out a "terrorist" attack during the annual Muslim pilgrimage, showed they "belong to the deviant group (official terminology for Al-Qaeda) and were in contact with leaders of the Al-Qaeda organisation abroad," the ministry said. "They were instructed to rebuild the deviant organisation and launch a terrorist campaign inside Saudi Arabia. Preparations for these criminal plans had reached advanced stages," it said.
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Muqtada Al-Sadr Comatose In Iranian Hospital
3/3/08
Shi'ite cleric and leader Muqtada Al-Sadr was secretly transferred a few days ago from Iraq to Iran for hospitalization as he was comatose. It was reported that his illness resulted from food poisoning.
Al-Sadr is being treated by Iranian specialists, as well as by Russian doctors brought in to help the Iranian medical staff treat him.
Sounds good to me.
comatose?
Ok.
Pity for his cook.
Singapore government butt of jokes after prison escape
Terrorism is usually no laughing matter, especially not in security-conscious Singapore, but the escape from custody of a limping Islamist extremist suspect has led to scorn on the Internet.
Barbed jokes and irreverent spoofs have sprouted up on websites five days after Mas Selamat bin Kastari, the alleged Singapore chief of regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, escaped with apparent ease from a detention centre.
also Russian doctors...that’s interesting.
And the antidote for ___ is___?
Scientists in Japan have developed a rice-based vaccination for cholera. The methodology can be applied to other types of pandemic diseases created by bio-terrorism. The advantage of utilizing this type of vaccination include the ability to store at room temperatures for 1.5 years. In addition, the vaccine is oral and may be widely dispensed in the event of wide-spread disease.