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| Saudi Arabia claims uncovering al Qaeda cell planning attacks |
| 2014-05-07 |
| [DAWN] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... said on Tuesday it had uncovered an al Qaeda krazed killer group with links to "extremist elements" in Syria and Yemen that had been plotting to assassinate officials and attack government and foreign targets. The cell comprised 62 members, including 59 Saudi krazed killers, a Yemeni, a Pak and a Paleostinian, Interior Ministry front man Major General Mansour al-Turki said in a televised briefing. Speaking in a live televised briefing, Turki said the cell had links to the ultra-hardline Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL), which is both a powerful krazed killer force in Syria's war and an anti-government combatant across the border in turbulent Iraq. He said some members of the cell were still on the lam. "They ... started constructing components of the organization, means of support and planning for terrorist operations targeting government installations, foreign interests and assassinating security personalities," he said. The conservative Islamic kingdom, the world's largest oil exporter, has grown increasingly concerned about radicalisation this year because the war in Syria has spurred what they see as a surge in online militancy. Officials are worried about a new al Qaeda armed campaign: Saudi Arabia faced an al Qaeda insurgency from 2003 to 2006 in which bully boyz targeted residential compounds for foreigners and Saudi government facilities, killing dozens of people. The kingdom had responded by arresting thousands of suspected bully boyz and launching a media campaign to discredit their ideology with the backing of influential holy mans and tribal leaders. The courts have sentenced thousands of Saudi citizens to prison terms for similar offences over the past decade. Turki said an investigation into social media postings "led security forces after months of hard work to pinpoint suspicious activities that unveiled a terrorist organization through which the elements of al Qaeda in Yemen were communicating with their counterpart elements in Syria in coordination with a number of misguided (people) at home in various provinces of the kingdom." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The planned attacks must have been a little too close to Saudi interests. |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-05-07 21:00 |