Saudis foil terror campaign plot

Saudi Arabia has foiled a number of terror plots and arrested 16 suspected terrorists, the Interior Ministry said today.

Saudi Arabia has foiled a number of terror plots and arrested 16 suspected terrorists, the Interior Ministry said today.

Security forces were able to stop plots against a number of vital installations and sites with the arrests in the capital Riyadh, al-Qasim north of Riyadh, and the Eastern Province, an ministry official said.

The oil rich kingdom’s official news agency did not say whether any of those arrested had been linked to the May 12 suicide bombings of Westerners’ housing compounds in Riyadh that killed 25 people and nine attackers.

The Interior Ministry official did not say when the 16 were arrested.

He said that during the arrests, security forces seized weapons hidden underground that included rocket-propelled grenades, 158 pounds of explosives, detonators, more than 20 tons of chemicals used to make explosives and rifles.

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