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  • Riyadh, pressing ahead with terror crackdown, swaps militants with Rabat

    01/11/2004 11:16:45 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 1 replies · 158+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 1/11/04 | AFP - Riyadh
    RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabia, engaged in a crackdown on Islamist extremists blamed for a string of bombings, said it had extradited two Moroccan militants to Rabat in exchange for three Saudis jailed in Morocco on al-Qaeda linked charges. "Security forces today received three Saudi citizens convicted and jailed in Morocco on security-related charges," said an interior ministry official quoted by the state SPA news agency. He named them as Abdullah bin Misfer al-Ghamdi, Zuhair bin Hilal al-Thabiti and Hilal bin Jaber al-Assiri, who were sentenced by a Casablanca court in February last year to 10 years in prison for...