4 Militants Arrested in Anti-Al Qaeda Sweep
From Times Wire Reports
Four Islamic militants arrested in the Red Sea port of Jidda were part of a group of 34 men rounded up last week in an effort to prevent a resurgence of Al Qaeda violence, the Saudi Interior Ministry said.
Weapons and locally made explosives were found in their apartment, which was being used “as a factory for instruments of death and destruction,” the official news agency SPA said.
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