Terror arrests, explosives seized [300 explosives belts and nearly 24 tonnes....]

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[Sub-Driver]

Terror arrests, explosives seized From correspondents in Riyadh 13Jan04

SAUDI Arabia has found about 300 explosives belts and nearly 24 tonnes of explosive materials and seized an unspecified number of people in its hunt for terror suspects, the interior ministry said today.

The seizures by security forces over the past six months included also more than 300 rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and launchers and more than 430 hand grenades, some locally made and others produced abroad, said a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. Security forces also seized 1020 weapons such as Kalashnikovs, guns and automatic rifles, more than 352,300 rounds of ammunition and 674 detonators "for use in 350 bombings", it said.

Communications equipment, timers and equipment to set up truck bombs were also seized.

Security forces "were able to thwart many criminal terrorist operations that were in the last phases of planning", the statement said.

Saudi authorities arrested hundreds of suspected Islamist extremists in the wake of three simultaneous attacks on expatriate housing complexes in the Saudi capital on May 12 last year that killed 35 people, including eight Americans.

But suicide bombers suspected of links with the al-Qaeda terror network struck again on November 8, setting off a car bomb in another expatriate housing complex and killing 17 people, mostly Arabs.

The ministry statement also said security forces had detained "a large number" of people used as "terror tools", without giving specific numbers.

[Calpernia]

ping

[American in Israel]

Aparantly the Saudi's prefer the export version of whahabism over the import version.

[The_Media_never_lie]

SAUDI Arabia has found about 300 explosives belts and nearly 24 tonnes of explosive materials and seized an unspecified number of people in its hunt for terror suspects, the interior ministry said today.

Surely there is an innocent explanation for this /sarcasm> When will the hateful Muslim clerics be held accountable by their countrymen?

[bjcintennessee]

Aparantly the Saudi's prefer the export version of whahabism over the import version.

LOL

How true.

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

True.

But what are the Saudi authorities to do, cancel the annual Hajj to Mecca?

[JustPiper]

Thats trivial comparing to what they have not found

[TheBattman]

And the destination of the "exported" version is---- I 'll give you two guesses, and the first one doesn't count....








Israel or Iraq?

[Ranger]

That's is a stockpile for a revolution not a terrorist attack. An incredible find.

[dead]

What kind of moron-army do you have to have when you stockpile hundreds of "explosives belts"?

[talleyman]

What kind of moron-army do you have to have when you stockpile hundreds of "explosives belts"?

One with a very low re-enlistment rate...

[DarthMaulrulesok]

I wonder how much of that stuff is stamped "property of Saudi Arabia Army" or "property of Saudi Arabia national guard"? To have that much stuff stockpiled means Al-Qaida (or some members of the royal family) have much more in mind than a few bombings.

Maybe the royal family needs to purge the extremists. If they can.

[Ichneumon]

What kind of moron-army do you have to have when you stockpile hundreds of "explosives belts"?

Not sure -- I'm still trying to figure out the Freeper who used the phrase "experienced suicide bombers".

[Billthedrill]

Terror arrests, explosives seized From correspondents in Riyadh

OK, OK, I know it's just an accident of extracting this from the source, but when I read this line I thought "gotta be Reuters."

[Ichneumon]