Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it has arrested three suspected Al Qaeda militants involved in spreading the group’s ideology through the Internet. The Interior Ministry identified two of them in a statement by their aliases Abu Osaid Al-Falluji and Abu Abdullah Al-Najdi and said the arrests were part of a crackdown on terrorism and misleading media that seeks to spread their deviant ideology. “They have targeted the youth of the nation with their deceptive calls in the hope of recruiting some of them to achieve their aims,” it said. It said Falluji, a Saudi, was involved in “preparing terrorist operations and encouraging people to take part in them “.
Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said earlier the three were members of Al Qaeda and that one of them was involved in plans to hit the kingdomÂ’s oil industry. The third suspect was a foreigner suspected of preparing to publish a magazine for Al Qaeda.