Dozens of Al-Qaeda suspects arrested in Saudi Arabia

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2008

RIYADH (AFP) — Saudi Arabia said on Monday it has rounded up 28 more Al-Qaeda suspects after arresting an equal number in December who plotted "terrorist" attacks and were in contact with the group's number two Ayman al-Zawahiri.

This brings to 56 the total number of members of the same group who have been detained and are linked to the Al-Qaeda leadership abroad, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the state SPA news agency.

The group had been instructed by the Al-Qaeda leadership to launch a "terrorist campaign" inside the kingdom, it said.

Interrogation of the first batch held in December, whose arrest was announced following an alleged plot to carry out a "terrorist" attack during the annual Muslim pilgrimage, showed they "belong to the...

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