Saudi anti-terror forces have arrested 10 people suspected of raising and smuggling funds for “suspicious bodies”, the official news agency said on Saturday.
The suspects “raised donations illegally and smuggled and transferred funds to suspicious bodies that use them to lure citizens and attract them into turbulent parts”, the Saudi Press Agency quoted an Interior Ministry spokesman as saying. Like other neighbours of Iraq, Saudi Arabia has often said it is working to prevent militants from crossing its border into Iraq to fight US-led troops. Many nationals of the conservative Muslim kingdom, including Saudi-born Osama Bin Laden, funded and joined Afghan fighters in their drive to eject Soviet forces from Afghanistan after its invasion in 1979. SPA said the group rounded up on Friday in the western cities of Jeddah and Medina consisted of nine Saudis and one foreign resident. |