Posted on 07/19/2015 6:36:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Saudi Arabia has arrested 431 people suspected of belonging to Islamic State cells and thwarted attacks on mosques, security forces and a diplomatic mission, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
The announcement came after a car bomb exploded at a checkpoint near the kingdom's highest security prison on Thursday, killing the driver and wounding two security officials in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
A string of deadly attacks carried out by followers of the ultra-hardline militant group based in Iraq and Syria has fueled concerns about a growing threat of militancy in the world's top oil exporter.
"The number arrested to date is 431, most of them citizens, in addition to participants from other nationalities ... six successive suicide operations which targeted mosques in the Eastern province on every Friday timed with assassinations of security men were thwarted," the ministry statement posted on the official news agency SPA said.
"Terrorist plots to target a diplomatic mission, security and government facilities in Sharurah province and the assassination of security men were thwarted," it said.
The ministry did not elaborate on when the men were detained, but previous announcements that scores of suspects have been arrested suggest it was over the course of months.
Their alleged offences cited by the ministry ranged from smuggling explosives, surveying potential attack sites, providing transport and material support to bombers, smuggling in explosives from abroad and manufacturing suicide vests.
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You telling me ISIS is a bunch of mooselimbophobes?
Wait till Bathhouse Barry finds out about this!
On the other hand we give them protection.
Probably like cockroaches. For everyone you see...
ISIS is the Saudis’ competition for establishing the Caliphate.
And on yet another hand, don't they give us money?
I suspect these perps won’t have pleasant sentences.
RE: And on yet another hand, don’t they give us money?
I know they give Harvard and Georgetown $20 Million each to fund expansion of the Center of Christian Muslim Understanding at Georgetown University and the establishment of four professorial chairs at Harvard University.
SEE HERE:
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1741
Isis will hang the the house of saud like pigs on tv. These idiots were duped into sending them millions.
19 of the 20 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi nationals and S.A. has been funding radical madrassas all across the US for years.
Yeah, yeah. I know that would leave ISIS with all those Saudi oil fields but at least one sack of inbreeding crap will be gone.
“Saudi Arbia Advertises for Eight New Executioners”
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/05/18/uk-saudi-execution-idUKKBN0O31K120150518
Q: What is the difference between Saudi Arabia and ISIS?
A: Saudi Arabia is a monarchy.
One possible future is the last two people on earth are both muslims.
One will kill the other for not being muslim enough...
The Saudi royal family are not going to let the scum ruin their evil empire. I wonder they haven’t had The Dictator bumped off. They are pissed about Iran. Iran and, by extension The Dictator, are a threat to their multi-trillion dollar kingdom. Bet th they’ve discussed it.
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