Posted on 06/25/2008 7:08:28 AM PDT by Aristotelian
RIYADH (AFP) — OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia has arrested 701 Islamists in the past six months on suspicion of plotting attacks on oil industry installations, the interior ministry announced on Wednesday.
Security forces "carried out several operations against followers of the deviant ideology and arrested a total of 701 people of various nationalities," said a ministry spokesman, quoted by the official SPA news agency.
Of those arrested since the start of the year, "520 are still being held for their implication in the organisational and ideological plans of the deviant ideology".
'Deviant ideology' is the term used by Saudi officials to describe Al-Qaeda.
The kingdom has been battling suspected Al-Qaeda militants since they launched a wave of shootings and bombings, many targeting Westerners, in May 2003.
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This is hugh.
This is hugh.
Oh, I get it now...THAT's why everyone wants us to close down GITMO. (so they can use it!)
What happened to the other 181? (Hint to SCOTUS: they aren't appealing their cases to a Federal court.)
Oh my, what a politically incorrect word. Hollywood is going to howl.
I just heard that huge 747s full of US lawyers are flying to Riyadh to make sure that their Constitutional right to Habeus Corpus petition are not infringed.
I just heard that huge 747s full of US lawyers are flying to Riyadh to make sure that their Constitutional right to Habeus Corpus petition are not infringed.
What, you don’t like their Catch And Release program?
Probably not in Saudi Arabia....Wahabi'ism is the dominate form of Islam in Saudi.
In a dank dungeon where they are being right and truly tortured. Waterboarding would be child’s play.
And maybe seven of them are actual terrorist, the others were named by them under duress, or by peoply they accused. Like witch trials.
They only announced it to scare the piss out people who are even remotely thinking of anything like this.
Couldn’t we provide C5A’s?
And air drop ‘em. (On palates, it’s only humane.)
Put them on rugs and toss them out the door.
Well, well. I wonder if old King Faisal Oil will start rethinking his funding of all those Wahhabist mosques and madrassas throughout the world? After all, it is they that are grooming the militants who form the rank and file of al Queda.
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