RIYADH, March 3: Saudi Arabia said on Monday it had arrested 28 people suspected of seeking to regroup Al Qaeda’s wing in the oil rich kingdom to carry out a “terror campaign”.
The official Saudi Press Agency said those detained were part of a total of 56 suspects arrested in a drive to round up Al Qaeda members in recent months, and “belonged to the deviant group (Al Qaeda) ... and received directions to rebuild the group and start a terror campaign in the kingdom”.
The suspects were using a recording from Al Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri to help raise money from ordinary Saudis, SPA said, citing a source in the ministry of interior.—Reuters
