The Saudis are being compelled to admit to the realities of fertile Islamic terrorism on their soil, but it's one painful, minute step at a time.
Muslim militants arrested or killed in recent police raids were trained by al-Qaida in Afghanistan and possibly in the Saudi kingdom, the interior minister said in remarks published Tuesday.Posted by Alan at July 29, 2003 05:15 PMThe arrests of more than 200 al-Qaida suspects over the last two months - and revelations that al-Qaida may have had training facilities in Saudi Arabia - came after attempts by Saudi officials to play down the presence of the terror network in the kingdom.
More than 200 suspects have been reported arrested and more than a dozen killed in police shootouts in 13 raids throughout the kingdom since the Riyadh attacks, which killed 25 people and nine attackers.
via The Guardian