Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 13

29-March-2010

SAUDI ARABIA

Riyadh Announces Mass Arrests For Suicide Bombing Plot On Oil Installations

Saudi Arabian authorities announced on 25 March that they had arrested 113 al-Qa'ida militants, including 12 men in two separate suicide bomber cells in the initial stages of preparing an attack on oil and security facilities in the Eastern Province, the hub of the Kingdoms oil industry, the official SPA news agency reported. The cells, which were...