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DUBAI - Seven terror suspects - six Saudis and a Yemeni - have escaped from a prison in central Riyadh, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday. The men escaped from Milz Prison, said the Saudi Interior Ministry. The Saudi Press Agency quoted the ministry’s spokesman Mansour Al- Turki as saying that if the fugitives do not return to the detention camp they would lose the privilege of an amnesty announced by Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz to those who surrender. He urged anyone who sees the fugitives to immediately contact the interior ministry or the closest police station. Last...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, April 18 (UPI) -- Saudi security forces arrested five suspected al-Qaida members closely linked to a foiled attempt to bomb oil installations in eastern Saudi Arabia. A security source said one of the detainees figures on a list of 36 wanted terrorists released by Saudi authorities last June. An interior ministry source said police discovered last week the suspects' hideout in a warehouse in Riyadh where they seized explosive materials, assault rifles and ammunitions, in addition to three cars. He said communication equipment, cameras, a computer and video tapes as well as false car plates were also...

Saudi security forces have thwarted a terrorist attack on Saudi Arabia's largest oil refinery Abqaiq, the second in two months, according to media reports. The Kuwaiti news agency KUNA and the Iraqi Radio Nawa report that police discovered two car bombs in the area. Local daily al-Riyadh reports that Saudi police on Tuesday carried out house searches in the al-Mantar area of Abqaib, where some employees of Saudi oil giant Aramco live, arms and explosive were discovered in one of the homes and one man was arrested. Reports say that the vehicles to be used in the attack bore the...

Saudi police exchanged fire in a Riyadh suburb Monday with suspects wanted in connection with a failed bid to blow up the world's largest oil-processing plant, the Al-Arabiya television channel reported. Sounds of automatic gunfire and grenades exploding could be heard in the residential suburb of Grenada, where the suspects were holed-up, the Dubai-based channel reported. Suicide bombers attempted to penetrate the world's largest oil-processing plant at Abqaiq, in the oil-rich eastern province, on Friday but their attack was thwarted leaving two security men dead. The two would-be suicide bombers were also killed. An Al-Qaeda statement posted on the...

Zaynab Khadr claims she didn’t know that terrorist Osama bin Laden would attend her wedding in Pakistan. Now the 25-year-old says she didn’t know clips of bin Laden’s voice calling for the killing of Americans were on the laptop computer seized by the RCMP at Pearson airport when she returned to Canada last February.

Plans, tapes diaries seized at Pearson airport Zaynab Khadr denies they belong to her OTTAWA—The RCMP and Canadian military believe they've discovered a vital cache of information on Al Qaeda that includes the whereabouts of wanted members and details of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan. The information is allegedly contained in a laptop, dozens of DVDs, audiocassettes and the pages of diaries, seized by the RCMP officers who met Zaynab Khadr at Pearson airport with a search warrant as she arrived back in Canada in February, court documents state. Khadr is the eldest daughter of a family that has...

Terry Nichols, Philippines, bombs, etc. See Mark Tapscott here: “Before Able Danger and Mohamed Atta, There Was Murrah Building Bombing and Hussain Al-Hussaini; Journalist Uncovers OKC Links to 9/11, which links to this L.A. Weekly article: “The Rohrabacher Test: Congressman questions Terry Nichols about Oklahoma City bombing”. The Mark Tapscott link also has a comprehensive statement from Jayna Davis, who has pursued this story for ten long years and has now written a book entitled “The Third Terrorist”. One interesting quote — among many — in the L.A. Weekly piece is from Richard Clarke: Clarke wrote that the theory of...

BBC man thanks God he survived By Chris Hastingsm Arts Correspondent(Filed: 02/10/2005)Frank Gardner, the BBC reporter left paralysed after an attack by Islamic terrorists, says the horrific incident has increased rather than shattered his faith in God.In an edition of Desert Island Discs to be broadcast today, Mr Gardner, 43, the corporation's security correspondent, also reveals that he has contracted osteoporosis, a disease normally associated with the elderly. Doctors diagnosed the condition just days before he recorded the Radio 4 programme.   Frank Gardner: 'I thank God for staying alive' Despite the continuing impact on his health Mr Gardner...

RIYADH, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Saudi security forces clashed with gunmen north of the capital Riyadh on Thursday, Al Arabiya television reported. The Saudi-owned channel was quoting its correspondent, who said police had cordoned off a district in north Riyadh where they were battling the gunmen. Earlier this month, Washington closed its diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia for two days due to an imminent threat against U.S. government buildings in the kingdom. Britain also warned that militants were in the final stages of planning attacks in the kingdom, and Australia said it had received "credible reports" Islamic extremists were...

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, in his debut in the U.N. Security Council, pressed Syria and Iran on Thursday to do more to stem the flow of terrorists, arms and funding into neighboring Iraq. His comments came as the 15-nation council unanimously adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution condemning a recent surge in violence in Iraq that has killed hundreds, including Algerian diplomats, U.S. Marines and a Sunni Arab helping to draft a new Iraqi constitution. Russia used the vote to criticize the media for glorifying terrorists after Moscow said it would bar ABC News from working in Russia when the U.S. television...

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The supposed chief of Al-Qaïda in Saudi Arabia killed in Riyadh - the supposed chief of Al-Qaïda in Saudi Arabia, the Morrocan Younès Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Hayari, was killed in a fixing Sunday in Riyadh with the Saoudi forces of safety, brought back the chain of television Al-Arabiya. "the chief of network Al-Qaïda in Saudi Arabia, (the activist) Moroccan required Younès Al-Hayari, was killed", brought back the chain, with mainly Saoudi capital, which emits since. Little before, Al-Arabiya had made state of a death and two wounded among the required islamist activists at the time of a fixing in the...

A Falls Church man accused of conspiring to assassinate President Bush met several times with an al Qaeda leader in Saudi Arabia who once was the target of a global manhunt and a key suspect in an attack that killed nine Americans in Riyadh, law-enforcement authorities said. Ahmed Omar Abul Ali, scheduled for a detention hearing tomorrow in federal court on charges of providing material support to al Qaeda, met with Zubayr al-Rimi in Saudi Arabia between September 2002 and June 2003...

Arabia: victory with Ryad of candidates supported by the islamists RYAD - the local elections organized in Saudi Arabia saw the victory in the Ryad capital of several candidates supported by the islamists, according to provisional results'. Some of beaten intend however to dispute this result. Several beaten candidates affirmed that the names of six of the seven winners were reproduced on a list diffused by portable telephone and Internet during the countryside, which makes them think that the latter had the support of the islamists. One among them, Zafer Al Yami, expressed the intention to dispute these results....

RIYADH (AFP) - A Yemeni considered to be closely linked to terror chief Osama bin Laden was one of seven militants killed in Wednesday's shootout with Saudi security forces in Riyadh, a security source told AFP. "Ibrahim Ahmad Abdel Majeed al-Reemy, a Yemeni national, was among the seven militants killed on Wednesday evening," the source said Reemy, who does not figure on the Saudi kingdom's most-wanted list, is a "big shot in Al-Qaeda and is believed to be the link between the organisation in Saudi Arabia and bin Laden himself," the source said. Wednesday's shootout took place after two car...

Oil prices surged nearly $US2 a barrel Wednesday following two bombings in the capital of Saudi Arabia and after the US government reported that winter fuel supplies shrank last week.Light crude for February delivery was up $US1.87 at $US43.64 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In London, Brent crude fell 90 cents to $US39.17 per barrel on the International Petroleum Exchange. While down considerably from the October peak above $US55 a barrel, crude futures are 33 per cent more expensive than a year ago, contributing to higher prices for gasoline, heating oil and other fuels. Fears of...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A suicide attacker tried to drive his bomb-laden car into the Interior Ministry complex, and militants set off another bomb and exchanged fire with police late Wednesday in Riyadh, capital of a kingdom at war with Muslim extremists. The first explosion at about 8:35 p.m. shattered windows and sent smoke and flames rising into the nighttime sky near the ministry in central Riyadh. Police officials said a suicide car bomber had tried to storm the ministry, but failed and instead exploded his car just outside. A number of policemen were injured, a ministry official said,...

RIYADH, 29 December 2004 — Three suspected terrorists were killed and another was injured in a gunbattle with security forces in the capital last night, security sources told Arab News. The encounter took place near Al-Salam Park, close to the Higher Court in Riyadh’s Al-Deera district. According to the sources, the terrorists opened fire on policemen who were in their hot pursuit near a gas station. The police returned fire in which the three terrorists were killed. There was no word on the casualties among the men in uniform. The sources added that some of the terrorists managed to escape...

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http://www.globalterroralert.com http://www.globalterroralert.com/saudi0904-02.pdfGlobalterroralert.com (9/21/04): Al-Qaida's Committee in Saudi Arabia has taken credit for last week's murder of Briton Edward Stuart Muirhead-Smith, 56 years old, in the parking lot of the Max shopping center in the eastern part of Riyadh. Saudi media sources reported that two un-identified male perpetrators in a white Toyota car shot Smith four times as he sat in his own vehicle. The men quickly fled and have remained at large from pursuing Saudi security forces.