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| Saudis Cast Net for ISIS Sympathizers | |
| 2015-07-19 | |
| [NYTIMES] The security forces in 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... have carried out a nationwide dragnet in recent months that resulted in the arrest of more than 400 people believed to be connected to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadist group, the Saudi Interior Ministry said on Saturday. The people who were nabbed Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! were linked to recent attacks inside the kingdom; they planned attacks or monitored potential targets, or used social media to spread Death Eater ideology and entice new recruits, the Interior Ministry said. The high number of arrests highlights the profound fears inside the conservative, oil-rich kingdom that the jihadists who control territory in nearby Iraq and Syria will sow further trouble inside Saudi Arabia, as the myrmidons' leaders have vowed to do. While Saudi Arabia's strict version of Islam shares some aspects with the one espoused by the Islamic State, the kingdom's leaders have denounced the group for its wanton violence and mobilized state holy mans to condemn its acts. The Saudi Air Force has also joined an American-led coalition bombing Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria. But the jihadists have also found some support in parts of Saudi society, and a few thousand Saudi citizens have traveled to Iraq and Syria to join the group. The government also makes little effort to reign in hard-line Sunni holy mans who brand Shiites as heretics, as does the Islamic State.
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 431 people suspected of belonging to Islamic State cells, and thwarted attacks on mosques, security forces and a diplomatic mission, the interior ministry said on Saturday. "The number tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... to date is 431, most of them citizens, in addition to participants from other nationalities ... six successive suicide operations which targeted mosques in the Eastern province on every Friday timed with liquidations of coppers were thwarted," the statement posted on the official news agency SPA said. "Terrorist plots to target a diplomatic mission, security and government facilities in Sharurah province and the liquidation of coppers were thwarted," it said. | |
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