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| Saudi Arabia tries 16 suspected Qaeda members |
| 2012-01-09 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Soddy Arabia has begun the trial of 16 suspected al Qaeda members accused of killing a policeman and plotting attacks on government officials and military weapons facilities, Saudi media reported on Sunday. The group is also accused of financing "terrorism" in other countries, smuggling weapons and training and sending beturbanned goons to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, Asharq al Awsat newspaper said. Soddy Arabia faced a Death Eater insurgency from 2003-06 in which al Qaeda members staged attacks on residential compounds for foreign workers and Saudi government facilities, killing dozens. The authorities ended the assaults after arresting thousands of suspected beturbanned goons and launching a media campaign to discredit their ideology with the backing of influential holy mans and tribal leaders. Last year the Interior Ministry said nearly 5,700 people had been incarcerated of whom 5,000 had faced a court, but human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedomat the convenience of the state... groups inside Soddy Arabia say more than 12,000 were placed in durance vile, including political prisoners who have demanded reforms. The trial of 14 Saudis, one Pak and one Afghan citizen started on Saturday in the special criminal court in the Saudi capital Riyadh, which was set up to handle trials of suspected Death Eaters. |
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