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… the remarkable reach of the global-terror network A little-noticed investigation by Swiss federal police has uncovered the existence of an apparent terror-support network with ties to the upper levels of Al Qaeda — including an operative believed to have played a role in the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the May 2003 bombing of a housing complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The discovery of a largely invisible Al Qaeda network in the peaceful alpine nation has gotten virtually no public attention outside of Switzerland. But criminal charges outlined in a July 30 Swiss prosecutor’s report —...

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...

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...

CAIRO (AP)--Saudi police reportedly arrested the kingdom's most wanted terrorist on Thursday, according to pan-Arab satellite TV station Al-Arabiya. The Saudi-owned station reported late Thursday that police captured Faris Ahmed Jamaan Al Showeel al-Zahrani in Abha, a town 800 kilometers southwest of the capital, Riyadh. According to the Cable News Network, the Saudi Interior Ministry said an operation targeting the man was still going on. Saudi authorities released a list of 26 most wanted terrorists following a series of bombings in Riyadh on May 12, 2003, that killed 26 people. On Nov. 8, another suicide attack on a Riyadh...

RIYADH, 23 April 2004 — Anger and astonishment continues to grow in the community after the terrorist attack on the security forces building in Riyadh with a call for quicker and firmer action to eradicate terrorism from the Kingdom. “Our country was always known as the country of Islam and peace,” said the sister of Col. Mutlak Al Hammash. Her brother remains in the ICU suffering from various head injuries due to the force of the blast. The colonel’s son, Khaled Al-Hammash, said, “I couldn’t believe what had happened. I immediately rushed to the hospital and discovered that my father...

RIYADH, 23 April 2004 — The Kingdom’s grand mufti said yesterday the perpetrators of Wednesday’s deadly blast would “burn in hell” for killing innocent Muslims in the attack. “God has promised wrath, damnation, painful torture and an eternity burning in hell for those who deliberately kill a Muslim... Unjustly killing a Muslim is the gravest crime and cannot be atoned for,” Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh said after visiting blast victims at Central Hospital here. At least five people were killed and 148 injured in the suicide bombing of buildings of special security forces and the Traffic Department. Some 83 out of...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Those responsible for Saudi Arabia's latest suicide attack will be "burned in hell," the kingdom's top cleric said Thursday, as investigators searched for clues to the deadly bombing. Five people, including two senior police officers and an 11-year-old girl, were killed along with the suicide bomber in Wednesday's attack on the administrative building of the General Security, the Interior Ministry said. It said 148 people were injured. A shadowy Islamic extremist group, the purportedly al-Qaida inspired al-Haramin Brigades, released a statement on at least two Islamic Web sites claiming responsibility for the attack. The authenticity of...

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Car bomb kills at least 10 in Saudi Wed 21 April, 2004 14:44 By Dominic Evans and Fahd al-Frayyan RIYADH (Reuters) - At least 10 people have been killed and dozens wounded by a car bomb that destroyed a Saudi security service building in the capital, witnesses say. Officials in Riyadh described it as a "terrorist attack" and Arab television said the body of suicide bomber had been found. One Saudi source said five car bomb attempts had been foiled in the past week but this, the sixth, got past tight security. "The front of a building is blown off...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI made a series of arrests in three states Friday of men suspected of ties to an anti-U.S. terrorist organization whose main goal is driving India out of the disputed Kashmir territory in South Asia. The arrests of at least seven suspects were made in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, said federal law enforcement officials speaking on condition of anonymity. Federal charges against the men, and several others who are overseas, were to be announced later in the day. The men are alleged to be part of an extremist Muslim organization called Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is on the...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors who accuse nine U.S. citizens and two other men of conspiring to join a Muslim terror group presented an address list and other evidence Friday to try to link the suspects to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida group. But the evidence wasn't enough to persuade U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema to keep one defendant, Sabri Benkhala, in jail. Brinkema ordered Benkhala released to home detention at his father's house in Falls Church, upholding a previous release order issued by a magistrate. "There's no question the government has raised some significant issues here," the judge said....

Shortly before midnight on May 12, 2003, Riyadh, the Saudi capital, was jolted awake by a series of synchronized car bombs that ripped through three residential compounds across the city. Twenty-five people from several nations, including Saudis, were killed. The jolt was psychological as well as physical. Al Qaeda, it seemed, had come home to roost, and not long after the terror attack, Saudis began referring to May 12 as ''our Sept. 11.'' Until the bombing, denial was officially sanctioned as a collective response to accusations that Saudi Arabia had a bit of a terrorism problem. Fifteen Saudis were among...

Aljazeera television has aired footage purporting to show the suicide bombers of a Riyadh residential compound minutes before they carried out their deadly attack last November. The Qatar-based Arab satellite news channel did not mention how it acquired the tape which was broadcast on Friday night.  Seventeen people, most of them Arab expatriates, were killed in the attack. The tape showed grainy and shaky images of what appeared to be a car making its way towards the housing compound with men inside chanting repeatedly: "Allahu Akbar (God is great)." This was suddenly interrupted by a dark screen and what...

A Saudi Islamist group affiliated with, or at least heavily inspired by, Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for blowing up a car last month in Riyadh belonging to Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim al-Dhaleh, a senior Saudi security officer. He escaped by the skin of his teeth. The group, the Brigade of the Two Holy Mosques, also said it was behind an attempt to kill Major General Abdel-Aziz al-Huweirini, the No. 3 official in the Saudi interior ministry, who was shot in the capital at the beginning of December. The latest statement from the Brigade of the Two Holy Mosques warned Dhaleh “and those...

Swiss police have arrested eight foreigners in connection with a series of suicide bombings that killed 35 people in the Saudi capital Riyadh last May. The Swiss Attorney-General's office says the eight people, arrested in a swoop across five Swiss cantons, are suspected of having provided logistical support to a criminal organisation. A spokeswoman for the Attorney-General's office declined to comment further on the arrests, the nature of the police's suspicions or the nationality of the detainees. Police say the arrests follow investigations into the triple suicide bombings in Riyadh that Saudi officials have blamed on Osama bin Laden's Al...

Saudi Arabia Says Top Al Qaeda Suspect Surrenders Tue December 30, 2003 02:56 PM ET RIYADH (Reuters) - One of Saudi Arabia's top wanted Islamic militants, sought in connection with deadly suicide bombings, surrendered to police on Tuesday, Saudi state media reported. An Interior Ministry statement carried by state media said Mansour bin Mohammad Ahmad Faqih, who was on a list of 26 wanted militants with suspected al Qaeda links, surrendered to authorities and was later visited by his family. Saudi Arabia has promised to strike with an "iron fist" against those behind bombings that killed more than 50 people,...

KARACHI - The suicide bomb attack at the Muhaya residential compound in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh on November 9 in which at least 17 people were killed - most of them foreign Arabs - was neither an episode of global jihadi terrorism nor part of a conspiracy to destabilize the House of Saud. A Pakistani undercover intelligence operator who recently returned from Riyadh told Asia Times Online that the attack was in fact the result of a deep divide within Saudi society between strict religious conservatives with little exposure to the outside world, and a more "liberal" element...

A SEBEGALESE Muslim cleric deported from Italy as a danger to state security was quoted today as telling a pan-Arab newspaper that he had met three times with Osama bin Laden, leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network. The cleric, Abdel Qadir Mamour, told the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat in an interview by telephone from Dakar, Senegal, that he had the meetings with bin Laden in Sudan from 1993 to 1996. Mamour said bin Laden had provided money to finance his trading in diamonds between Africa and Belgium, but did not say how much money was involved or if bin Laden was...

Al-Qa'ida Claims Responsibility for Saudi Bombings GMP20031111000129 London Al-Majallah in Arabic 09 Nov 03 [Unattributed report: "Al-Qa'ida Claims Responsibility for Al-Muhayya Bombings and Threatens the Americans" -- pre-release received by email from Al-Majallah 11 Nov 03] [FBIS Translated Text] [Partial Text] Al-Qa'ida has claimed responsibility for last Saturday's Al-Muhayya bombings in Riyadh and said in an email received by our representative in Dubai that events will continue and that the next strikes will be in the Gulf, the United States, and Iraq -- in what appears to be a reference to the threats that the United States and Britain have...

Saba Did the Right Thing, Say Many Somayya Jabarti, Arab News Staff   JEDDAH, 19 November 2003 — Out of ruins heroes rise — or heroines.Saba Abu Lisan, a young Saudi woman, rescued seven people, including her two sisters, after the Al-Muhaya Compound bombing in Riyadh on Nov.8 .Wounded and bleeding herself, she transported the victims to King Faisal Specialist Hospital in her father’s Mercedes. Her actions — a conflict between following human instinct and violating Saudi law — stirred a mixture of reactions.“There’s nothing to think about,” said Muhammad Haider, a Saudi father of four, when asked his...

RIYADH, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Taking cover behind desert shrubs, Saudi commandos creep up to a house where suspected militants are holed up. With a burst of gunfire and flash bombs, they storm through doors and windows, clamber over walls and race through the rooms to take control of the gunmen's hideout. Today it's just a training drill. But men from this unit of Saudi Arabia's Special Security Forces, on the front line of the kingdom's battle with an Islamist insurgency, were in action for real two weeks ago when they raided a house in Riyadh and killed a suspected...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia decided Monday to hold its first elections, announcing a vote to create local councils in the conservative Gulf monarchy. The step comes at a time when the Saudi royal family is under pressure to bring democratic reform - especially since the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States. The Saudi Cabinet said in a statement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, that it "has decided to expand the participation of citizens in running local affairs through elections, by empowering the roles of municipal councils." The Cabinet did not say when elections would...

On its newly reactivated website, al-Qaida features a book warning the terrorist network's May attack in Riyadh was the "opening shot" in a jihad campaign against the Arabian Peninsula and its "heretical" regimes. Editor's note: The al-Qaida site may have been shut down again - there was no response shortly after this story was published in WND The book asserts the real ruler over the Muslim countries of the Middle East is "Crusader America," which has subjected Muslim leaders to itself as a district ruler is subject to a king, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research...

Britons who were imprisoned in Saudi Arabia revealed yesterday how they were tortured and beaten into confessing to crimes they did not commit. Weeks after their return to the UK, they shared the horror of their three-year ordeal. Blindfolded, shackled and deprived of sleep, some were whipped with axe handles until they bled. Others were threatened with decapitation or were told that their wives and partners would be raped in front of them if they did not admit responsibility for car bombings in Riyadh. One prisoner - Glen Ballard, 43, from Kent - tried to suffocate himself with a plastic...

September 1, 2003: What Really Happened When Al Qaeda Attacked; The attack on Western style housing compounds in Riyadh on 12 May demonstrated a new chapter in the way Al-Qaeda does business in Saudi Arabia. The timing, forces and methods of attack were different from any previously attempted. Prior to these attacks, there was only one, probably two Al-Qaeda attacks in Saudi. The first attack, in November of 1995 was on a National Guard headquarters in the capital, Riyadh. While variously called an attack on SANG (Saudi Arabian National Guard) Headquarters or the “US trainers” by the media, it was...

Letter from Bin Laden found on body of Saudi bomber By John R Bradley in Jeddah 19 August 2003 A letter from Osama bin Laden and a telephone call made from Iran by his son Saad are linked to a series of al-Qa'ida attacks on Westerners in Saudi Arabia, according to Western diplomats and Saudi intelligence officials. The letter from al-Qa'ida's leader was found on the body of Yosif Salih Fahd Alayeeri, one of 19 attackers involved in a closely co-ordinated series of bombings in Riyadh in May, who was killed in a shootout with security forces in central Saudi...

<p>JIDDA, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Crown Prince Abdullah said yesterday that the desert kingdom is locked in a "a decisive battle" against the "forces of evil," language that echoed the words of President Bush after the September 11 attacks.</p> <p>"There is no room for neutrality or hesitancy," Prince Abdullah, who is Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, said in remarks carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.</p>

Tragedies of 9/11 and in Riyadh Do Not Represent Saudi People or Islam, According to New Zogby International Poll. Impressions of American Life and Culture Down from 2002 Study -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new poll of citizens in Saudi Arabia reveals that they reject the international acts of terror claimed by Osama bin Laden as not consistent with the values of the Saudi people, nor with the values of Islam. The survey of 600 Saudi citizens was commissioned by the Arab American Institute of Washington, DC, as part of an on-going study of Saudi attitudes. It was conducted during July, and...

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Two militants killed in a shootout with Saudi police last week were part of a cell of 19 suspected terrorists linked to al-Qaida and thought to be behind the deadly May suicide bombings in Riyadh, a newspaper reported Monday. The Al-Watan daily, quoting "informed sources," identified the men as Ahmed bin Nasser al-Dekhiel and Hamad bin Abdullah al-Aslami. The men were killed during the July 28 raid on a farm in the al-Qassim area, 220 miles northwest of the capital, Riyadh. Four other suspected militants and two police officers also died. The two were on a...

The Associated Press WASHINGTON July 31 — A suspect in the May 12 bombings in Saudi Arabia told interrogators about new plots to hijack planes and use them as weapons, but intelligence officials say he could be lying.Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi al-Ghamdi, whom U.S. counterterrorism officials describe as a leading al-Qaida operative in Saudi Arabia, reported the possible hijacking plot, said one intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The man, also known as Abu Bakr al-Azdi, surrendered to Saudi authorities on June 26.Intelligence officials say they consider his threat credible but do not know if he is...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A high-level al Qaeda operative was one of the sources of information leading to the latest warning about possible suicide hijackings of airliners, a government source told CNN Wednesday.</p> <p>The source said Ali Abd al-Rahman al Faqasi al-Ghamdi -- allegedly one of the key organizers of the May 12 suicide bombings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that killed 23 people, including nine Americans -- gave information concerning possible hijackings.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - The mastermind of the May bombings in Riyadh has been taken into custody in Saudi Arabia, a U.S. official and a source close to the Saudi Embassy in Washington said on Thursday.</p> <p>The Saudi-related source said the suspect, Ali Abdul Rachman Al-Gamdi, also known as Abu Bakr al-Azdi, a senior Saudi-based al Qaeda operative, surrendered to Saudi authorities. But the U.S. official said the man was "captured."</p> <p>"The mastermind of the Saudi bombings has surrendered to Saudi authorities," said the embassy-related source, who asked not to be identified further.</p>

KUWAIT CITY (Agencies): Scores of Kuwaitis, including an Islamic culture instructor at the Saad Al-Abdullah Academy for Security Sciences, were recently rounded up by Saudi authorities in the wake of the Riyadh blasts on May 12, a newspaper reported Sunday. Al-Watan quoted Kuwaiti security sources as saying the Saudi authorities are questioning a number of Kuwaitis on their alleged involvement with al-Qaeda organisation. They said tens of Kuwaitis being interrogated include a Kuwaiti instructor, identified only as M.S., who went missing late last month, and entered Saudi Arabia without an exit record at any Kuwaiti border post. Saudi authorities suspecting...

JEDDAH, 23 June 2003 — The Kingdom is still seeking two main suspects in the triple suicide bombings on Western compounds in Riyadh which killed 35 people last month, Interior Minister Prince Naif said in an interview published yesterday. The authorities have recently intensified a crackdown on suspected militants launched after the bombings in Riyadh, which have been blamed on the Al-Qaeda network. Prince Naif told Okaz newspaper that 44 people had been arrested so far. They include four women arrested in a new raid in Makkah last week amid initial indications that they played a role in the terror...

May 15th - The Arab News runs a piece penned by its bureau chief Said Saud Qusti. In his article Mr. Qusti features comments that Saudi Interior Minister Prince Naif gave to Asharq al-Awsat. The comment that we are most concerned with here deals with the reputed mastermind of the Riyadh bombings, one Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi al-Ghamdi, alias Abu Bakr al-Azdi. Prince Naif states that al-Ghamdi has surrendered to Saudi security. May 27th and 28th - A series of sweeps in the city of Medina net a number of suspects in the Riyadh plot. Al-Watan, tipped by a...

<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- At least five more suspects have been arrested in relation to last month's Riyadh suicide bombings on Western residential compounds, Saudi Arabia's interior minister said in remarks published Saturday.</p> <p>Prince Nayef told the Saudi daily Al-Riyadh that five people were arrested Thursday, including one who "might have (had) a main role" in the attacks that killed 35 people, including nine suicide bombers.</p>

<p>Saudi Arabia said yesterday that last month's suicide attacks in Riyadh prompted the desert kingdom to crack down on militants, cut off money to charities that fund terrorists and muzzle clerics who defend terrorism and Osama bin Laden.</p> <p>But Adel al-Jubeir, a top adviser to Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah, said his nation would continue to aid Palestinian groups, even if some of the money wound up going to the families of suicide bombers or to the political wing of the violently anti-Israel Hamas group.</p>

The first is my letter to Raid Saud Qusti, Riyadh Bureau Chief for the Arab News, along with his reply, and the second is to Abdul Rahman al-Rashed, editor in chief of Asharq al-Awsat. But before I get to the letters, a brief overview is in order. May 15th - The Arab News runs a piece penned by its bureau chief Said Saud Qusti. In his article Mr. Qusti features comments that Saudi Interior Minister Prince Naif gave to Asharq al-Awsat. The comment that we are most concerned with here deals with the reputed mastermind of the Riyadh bombings, one...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - After an intense manhunt that netted 21 suspects and left another dead, Saudi authorities think they have disabled the al-Qaida cell behind the May 12 suicide bombings in the Saudi capital. But government officials and international terrorism experts fear that other cells are planning further strikes in the desert kingdom, possibly in retaliation for the wave of arrests.,p> "This is going to make them pretty angry," said Stephen Ulph, the Islamic affairs and terrorism analyst for Jane's Information Group in London. "I don't think Saudi Arabia is going to be a very safe place in the...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, June 3, 2003 If the letter is confirmed as being from bin Laden, it not only would provide evidence the terrorist leader was alive late last year, but that there are ties between the Riyadh bombings and bin Laden's al Qaeda. (CBS/AP) A suspected militant killed by Saudi police last weekend was carrying a 6-month-old letter allegedly written by Osama bin Laden, a Saudi newspaper reported Tuesday. The body of the man identified as Yosif Salih Fahd Ala'yeeri, one of 19 militants wanted for alleged ties to al Qaeda, was searched after he was shot dead following...

Date: Sun Jun 1, 2003 9:28 pm Subject: Saudi Arabia Identifies Those Arrested for Planning 'Terrorist Acts' in Medina Saudi Arabia Identifies Those Arrested for Planning 'Terrorist Acts' in Medina GMP20030601000201 Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia TV1 in Arabic 1830 GMT 01 Jun 03 [Announcer-read report over video] [FBIS Translated Text] An official Interior Ministry source has stated the following: Based on what was mentioned by His Royal Highness Interior Minister Prince Nayif Bin-Abd-al-Aziz at the news conference he held in Tabuk on Wednesday 27 Rabi al-Awwal 1424 Hegira [corresponding to 28 May 2003] regarding the intention to announce the...

2 Saudi security men killed by wanted men - one captured other killed Ministry of Interior statement issued http://www.spa.gov.sa/html/archive_e.asp?srcfile=86636&NDay=01/06/2003&wcatg=0 Riyadh, June 1, SPA(Saudi Press Agency) -- An official source at the Ministry of Interior said that at 9:50 p.m. yesterday and about 10 kilometers northeast of the city of Trobah along the Hail-Lainah road, officers of a security patrol saw a suspicious Toyota jeep car stopping on the road and carrying two persons. When security men asked the driver to show them his identity card, he fled away. The security men followed the man who traveled along a desert road....

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Sixteen months after his death, Saudi authorities still grapple with the legacy of a blind cleric who preached that the United States was the enemy of Muslims and that those allied with the West were nonbelievers. This past week, the interior minister said three prominent followers of Sheik Hammoud bin Oqla al-Shuaibi were arrested during the investigation into the May 12 Riyadh terror attacks that killed 34 people, including eight Americans. The trio apparently is not suspected of making bombs or firing weapons, but of wielding words. ``It's like al-Shuaibi has risen from the dead,''...

<p>TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's foreign minister said Friday that the al-Qaida operatives Iran now has in custody were arrested before the May 12 suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia and couldn't have been involved in the attacks.</p> <p>"There is no possibility that they were able to do any (bombing) operation nor could they lead these kind of military operations," Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi told reporters at one of several impromptu news conferences he's held recently to counter American accusations that his country is failing to fight terrorism. "When they are in prison all their connections are cut with the outside."</p>

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani authorities are searching for two United Arab Emirates nationals suspected of involvement in the May 12 suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia, an official said Friday. The two suspects are believed to have flown to the southern Pakistani city of Karachi earlier this month after the bombings in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. An official at Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency, which enforces immigration laws, said his department had received a letter from the Interior Ministry passing along a request by the United Arab Emirates to find and extradite the men. The official spoke on condition his name...

Bomb suspect dies in custody Giles Tremlett Thursday May 29, 2003 The Guardian The man who allegedly organised suicide bombings that killed 43 in Casablanca 12 days ago has died in police custody, officials said yesterday. The death of Abdelhaq Moulsabbat was blamed on heart and liver problems. "His health condition did not allow investigators, unfortunately, to complete all the elements of the investigation," a prosecutor, Moulay Abdellah Alaoui Belghiti, told Morocco's state television. Moulsabbat was arrested on Monday in Fes, whose poorer districts are said to be an Islamist stronghold. Mr Belghiti described him as the "general coordinator" and...

TEHRAN, Iran — In a reversal, Iran left open the possibility Thursday it may have top Al Qaeda (search) operatives in custody, including the terror network security chief suspected by U.S. officials of planning attacks in Saudi Arabia (search). Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi's comments to The Associated Press contradicted his statement Monday, when he was quoted as telling state-run radio that Al Qaeda members detained in Iran (search) "are not senior members of the group." More

Thu May 29, 2003 09:19 AM ET DUBAI (Reuters) - A purported al Qaeda e-mail has vowed revenge attacks on the Saudi royal family over reports that Saudi police killed two Muslim clerics during a manhunt after the Riyadh blasts, an Arabic newspaper said Thursday. Saudi Arabia has denied the reports and said the outspoken clerics, who have issued religious edicts against close Saudi-Western ties, were among suspects held after the May 12 suicide bombings that killed 34, including eight Americans. The London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported that the e-mail, sent by unnamed persons close to Osama bin Laden, said the...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi authorities have arrested 11 more suspected militants in its investigation of the Riyadh bombings, Interior Minister Prince Nayef said in remarks published Thursday. The suspects were detained without resistance in the holy city of Medina, western Saudi Arabia, Saudi newspapers quoted the minister as saying. They included three wanted clerics -- Ali al-Khudair, Ahmad al-Khalidi and Nasser al-Fahd -- known for their sympathy for al-Qaida, the minister told reporters Wednesday in Tabuk, 60 miles south of the Jordanian-Saudi border. The clerics had urged people to support the 19 militants wanted in connection with a...

Riyadh Attack: al-Abdel in Iran Ordered It, al-Ghamdi in Saudi Arabia Oversaw It Iran Had Handed al-Ghamdi to Saudis Who Then Released Him As many as eleven suspects have been arrested in Medina in connection with the terror attacks in Riyadh, including the suspected mastermind Ali Abdul Rahman al-Ghamdi, aka Abu Bakr. The daily Okaz, quoting informed sources, said that the alleged mastermind was Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi al-Ghamdi. The paper reported that al-Ghamdi was arrested in Medina on Tuesday when police stopped a jeep with five men inside. However, Al-Watan daily reported that al-Ghamdi was arrested along with two...