Saudis Make Terror Bust
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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – Police have arrested 172 militants who were plotting to attack Saudi Arabia’s oil fields, Saudi state television reported Friday, showing video of explosives, ammunition and firearms found buried in the desert.
The Interior Ministry said more than $32.4 million was seized in the operation, one of the largest sweeps against terror cells in the kingdoms.
Al-Ekhbariyah, the Saudi state television network, showed investigators breaking tiled floors with hammers to uncover pipes packed with weapons. In one scene, an official upends a plastic pipe, and bullets and little packets of plastic explosives spill out.
Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Mansour al-Turki told the rival Al-Arabiya channel that the militants included non-Saudis and that one cell planned to storm a prison and release the inmates.
