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Saudi Arabia Makes Al-Qaida Arrests

   VOA News 26 November 2010

   Saudi  Arabia  says it has arrested 149 people with suspected al-Qaida
   links over the past eight months.
   The  Interior  Ministry  said  Friday  the  alleged militants had been
   planning attacks against the government and journalists.
   The  ministry  said  the  suspects  are  a  mix  of  Saudis  and other
   nationalities and had links to 19 al-Qaida cells.
   Reuters says Saudi officials confiscated almost $600,000 from al-Qaida
   when the militant group tried to collect money and spread its ideology
   during the annual Muslim Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages in the country.
   Earlier  this  month,  Saudi  officials  said  they  were on guard for
   possible  al-Qaida attempts to disrupt security during the Hajj, which
   ended last week.
   Saudi  interior  minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz said al-Qaida or
   other  militants  may  attempt incursions from neighboring Yemen which
   has seen budding terrorism cells.

   Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.
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