Saudis arrest 139 'sleeper cell' suspects

[Target_For_Exterm]

Now we know what Cheney was doing in Saudi - someone from Al Qaeda blabbed.

"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- Saudi security officials said Saturday they foiled a planned terrorist suicide attack and arrested 139 suspected Islamist militants who were in "sleeper cells" believed to be affiliated with al Qaeda.

A senior official in the Saudi Interior Ministry told CNN that the suspects, who are from several Arab nations, were monitored by Saudi security agents for several months. They rounded the men up just before the expected attack was launched.

The suspects, arrested in different areas of Saudi Arabia, were being interrogated Saturday, the official said.

In October 2005, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia called the threat of al Qaeda in his country "madness and evil" and vowed to "eliminate this scourge" of terrorism. Fifteen of the 19 al Qaeda terrorists participating in the September 11, 2001, attacks were Saudis."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/02/saudi.sleeper/index.html

It's sad that I can no longer trust my own country or it's elected officials...

[eliphaslevi]

1. Demo Team

I wonder if any of them were part of the 9/11 demolition team for building # 1, 2 or 7.

[devilgrrl]

2. How many were Saudi royal family memebers?

:sarcasm: