 RIYADH - Saudi authorities said on Tuesday they raided an explosives depot in Riyadh five days ago and had also recently arrested five suspects linked to FebruaryÂ’s failed attempt on an oil processing plant.
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“The investigation led us to one of their dens (five days ago) ... in the (eastern) Al Sulai neighbourood in Riyadh and we found 123 explosives bags weighing more than a tonne and a half,” an interior ministry official was quoted by the state-owned SPA news agency as saying.
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He said the five suspects were arrested in the aftermath of clashes in another Riyadh neighbourhood in late February that killed another five linked to the attempted attack on the Abqaiq processing plant in the oil-rich Eastern Province. “They may have been arrested during several operations. I do not have the full picture yet,” interior ministry spokesman Major Mansur Al Turki told AFP.
| "Nor am I capable of getting the full picture," he added. |
He said he did not know if the five men were members of the Al Qaeda terror network and whether they had been planning to carry out fresh attacks using the materials seized at the Riyadh hideout.
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In addition to the explosives, three cars, 16 pistols, eight machine guns and rifles, fake license plates, ammunition, mobile telephones, video equipment, tapes and compact discs were seized at the Sulai hideout.
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