RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said yesterday it will put on trial four Saudis suspected of carrying out attacks that killed local officials and security forces in the north of the kingdom.
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An Interior Ministry official told the Saudi Press Agency that the four men were responsible for a wave of violence between March 2002 and early 2003 in Al Jawf province, close to the Iraqi border. The official did not name the four suspects and did not link them to attacks by supporters of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda militant network. He said the men had fired at security forces and kidnapped a foreign resident. They also killed a local court judge, a senior provincial official, a member of the security forces on patrol and a policeman. |