Major-General Mansour al-Turki said security forces dismantled 19 al-Qaeda cells. [Fahad Shadeed/Reuters]
Saudi Arabia's announcement last week that its security forces dismantled 19 terrorist cells provided new evidence of the kingdom's success in countering any activity that emanates from its territory or is carried out by Saudis and that disrupts security in the Kingdom or in foreign countries.
The cells were reportedly composed of 149 individuals accused of involvement with al-Qaeda operations in Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia.
The announcement also raised questions about al-Qaeda's continued success in recruiting Saudis to support its ideology, which authorities describe as misguided and lost.
Major-General Mansour al-Turki, security spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry, said in a press conference on November 26th that Saudi security services were able, during the last eight months, to dismantle 19 terrorist cells, including 10 linked to each other and nine operating independently. He said the various cells included 124 Saudis, including a large number of young people. The rest of the accused were nationals of Arab, African and Asian countries.
The cells were planning to carry out suicide attacks against Saudi military institutions and assassinate security officials and journalists, according to al-Turki. They also targeted "the protected", in reference to foreigners working or residing in Saudi Arabia who are recognised as being protected under Islam.
Saudi officials said some of the cells' plans had reached advanced stages. Some of their members have ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia, they added.
Yemen is where the command centre of the Gulf branch of al-Qaeda, called al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, is located. The branch was founded in 2009 when al-Qaeda's Saudi branch and Yemeni branch were unified under the command of a Yemeni national and his Saudi deputy.
As for Afghanistan, and specifically the tribal areas bordering Pakistan such as Waziristan, it is an essential headquarters for al-Qaeda leadership and the suspected hiding place of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Despite the fact that the Somali al-Shabab movement declared allegiance to al-Qaeda, it has not yet turned into an official branch in East Africa. It is clear, however, that al-Qaeda has been present on Somali soil for many years. Its cells were implicated in more than one attack in neighbouring countries such as Kenya and Tanzania.
Somalia appears to play an important role by virtue of its location and al-Shabab movement's control over large parts of its territory as a liaison between al-Qaeda elements in South Asia (Afghanistan and Pakistan's Waziristan) and al-Qaeda in the Gulf, especially Yemen.
But in reality, the cells that were dismantled in Saudi Arabia are not only linked to Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan. The ties include other countries, as indicated by reports the Saudis provided to Interpol containing the names of individuals plotting terrorist operations in the Kingdom.
The number of those wanted abroad, and their whereabouts, has not been officially announced.
There is no doubt that dismantling all these cells represents a powerful new strike by Saudi security services against al-Qaeda, which barely recovers from a blow and tries to catch its breath and rebuild its cells before receiving another blow toppling the new cells that have been built.
This wearing down and continued dismantling of the cells in Saudi Arabia confirms that Saudi security services are highly vigilant and exhibit a degree of efficiency and professionalism that has allowed them to thwart the vast majority of attacks planned by al-Qaeda over the past few years.
This implies that Saudi Arabia is no longer a fertile ground for al-Qaeda activity, in contrast to Yemen, which is currently trying to contain the organisation's increasing activity, which is active in a number of remote areas, sometimes under the protection of regional tribes.
Yemen was a known haven for many members of al-Qaeda cells that were dismantled by the Saudi agencies between 2003 and 2006.
Those members are currently waging their new campaign against the Saudi government from Yemen, including assassination attempts on senior officials, as occurred with Assistant Secretary of Interior Prince Mohamed bin Nayef. An al-Qaeda operative in Yemen claimed he wanted to surrender himself to authorities and attempted to blow himself up and the prince at his palace in Riyadh last year.
The bomber died while Prince Mohamed suffered minor injuries.
The Saudis undoubtedly knows al-Qaeda activity in Yemen will continue to constitute a constant threat to their security if it is not addressed.
The Saudis offer various forms of assistance to the Yemeni government to address its problems, but they are also apparently attempting to penetrate al-Qaeda on Yemeni territory.
It is not clear what the Saudis have done in this area, but what is certain is that their efforts are beginning to bear fruit, as evident through official confirmations in Washington and Riyadh that Saudi agencies provided information that exposed the recent conspiracy of al-Qaeda in Yemen to blow up US planes with explosives hidden in printers placed in packages on cargo planes headed to the United States.
Yemeni officials said the Saudis were able to uncover the plot as a result of someone infiltrating al-Qaeda in Yemen.
While detection of these cells represents another success for Saudi security forces, the large number of Saudis involved in these cells must be a source of concern to the authorities.
The reason for this concern is tied to al-Qaeda's ability to continue to recruit young people in the Kingdom despite all the efforts being made to counter its ideology.
This recruitment is partly done online through supporters of al-Qaeda's ideology, spreading it and recruiting its followers—sometimes sending them outside of Saudi Arabia to receive training before returning to the kingdom to do what is asked of them.
According to Saudi officials, members of the 19 dismantled cells used the internet to broadcast "propaganda for delinquent thought". One member identified himself on internet forums as "Killer", "Enlightened", "Lover of God" and "Abu Riyan".
The detainees also included a woman calling herself "Immigrant Lion", "Stranger", "Beloved daughter of Najd" and "Shining Star". Authorities delivered this woman to her family and left them to deal with her, in accordance with traditions governing how the state deals with women. There are some rare cases in which they are held in Saudi prisons such as Hayla al-Qassir, who harboured members of al-Qaeda.
The announcement that the cells were targeting of journalists confirms that reporters are "considered a beacon in the war against terrorism, and all journalists are also in the line of fire against any movement of terrorism," al-Riyadh newspaper columnist Yousef al-Kwelit told Al-Arabiya.
"When al-Qaeda targets journalists, it confirms the importance of the role the media plays," he said.
Also speaking to Al-Arabiya, Jamal Khashoggi, the former editor of Saudi newspaper al-Watan, said targeting journalists indicates that "al-Qaeda is hurting" because of what they (journalists) are doing.
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saad
2011-9-30
You disbelievers! Kick the Americans out of your lands if you are Muslims as you claim, or maybe you are happy that they sleep with your women!
طاهر رضا
2011-1-7
Al-Qaeda is operated by several regional actors that have plans and a special agenda to implement in the region. It is not run by a single state, because we know that those who support this organization and provide money, assistance and arms desire only what they themselves want. Here Iran is taking advantage of this fact from several directions, sometimes by interfering in Lebanese affairs through its clients in Hezbollah and directing them, and other times interfering in Iraqi affairs and directing them to the destruction of Iraq and carrying out terrorist acts and bombings inside it. It wants to weaken Iraq and deny it the chance to ever rise in any area. Now there is a great deal of work done by Iran to drive al-Qaeda to operate in Saudi Arabia, and this is what al-Qaeda is carrying out now. But Saudi Arabia is a strong country, and it has a strong control and follow-up of terrorism. They dismantle any cells established by al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia. Perhaps, Iran is trying to do this because it fears Saudi Arabia as one of the largest Arab countries, which has a fair amount of control over the region. Iran wants to make sure Saudi Arabia is preoccupied with terrorism, so it will be easy for it to carry out various criminal acts and assassinations.
يعقوب سليمان
2011-1-7
I not rule out Iran's sponsorship of al-Qaeda, because most of the weapons, bombs and rockets that are captured in the possession terrorists are Iranian-made, and there are many other signs indicating that Iran stands in support of terrorism.
نجاح عبدالرحمن
2011-1-7
Al-Qaeda carries out a foreign agenda. It does not have goals and it is not a political system or party; it is a group of homeless militias that kill innocent people and destroy countries everywhere in this world. As they have no principle, Iran, for example, may be one of the states that direct that terrorist organization on the pretext that it is an Islamic organization and it has nothing to do with Iran. But we know that the Iranian regime has malicious intentions and a rotten agenda that it wants to realize in the Arab countries, so that Iran can take control over the situation in the region.
اسعد عبدالحافظ
2011-1-7
Obtaining information from the terrorists and leaders who are arrested in Saudi Arabia is very important. Saudi Arabia is in the service of the Arabian Peninsula as a whole and all the countries of the world as well. But the Saudi government should obtain all the information that these criminals have, by convincing them to do the right thing, for once in their lives, to rid the world of the evils and the bombings by al-Qaeda. Then, a lot of the ties and connections of these criminals with their supporters will be revealed. The investigations can lead to the discovery of the places the terrorists want to get to and to the plans drawn to target these places. This information should be dealt with in confidentiality, to get to all those who work with them, whether secretly or publicly, because that will end terrorism and eliminate its infidel remnants.
بهاء الدين طه
2011-1-7
The Saudi government has been able to hunt down a large number of leaders of al-Qaeda, who were arrested by Saudi security forces, and they are now in the hands of the government. They could be useful during the investigation in revealing a lot of the information that they have, especially as they are in contact with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in general. Through these detainees, the Saudi government can obtain a lot of information that will be useful in reaching the core of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and killing or capturing the offender, Osama bin Laden, the leader of this terrorist organization. This can be achieved through the Saudi government's cooperating with the global anti-terrorism center and revealing the information obtained, in order to make the Arabian Peninsula a region free of terrorists and their collaborators, who are working in secret with this infidel organization.
فائز نمر
2010-12-29
It is very important for the investigative authorities in Saudi Arabia, after arresting the terrorist leaders of al-Qaeda, to investigate them professionally. Why? Because the benefit would be great, as they have information about how al-Qaeda smuggles terrorists, how it recruits, and how it attracts and exploits young people. This is because those occupying the posts of commander in al-Qaeda have a lot of information that will help capture a larger number of terrorists in the Arabian Peninsula. We do not want any terrorist to remain in our land, and we want to rid our land and the world of them. The importance of this is great, and they should not tolerate anything or let the terrorists deceive and mislead them, because every piece of information about hideouts or headquarters of this organization will lead to another, and so on until we reach the head of the snake and bring about the collapse of al-Qaeda, by continuous organized strikes and proactive operations.
عبدالغني معروف
2010-12-29
I encourage the Saudi security forces, who are involved in fighting and prosecuting terrorism in the country, and who were following up the leaders of al-Qaeda and have arrested them. These villains have much information that could be used to identify many of the names and terrorist elements and their locations in the Arabian Peninsula. The terrorists are trying to attract the largest possible number of young Saudis, through the religious effect they have. So it is very important to have an ongoing follow-up, to arrest as many elements of al-Qaeda as possible, by taking advantage of the information which is extracted from the captured terrorists and giving it to anti-terrorism agencies and security apparatuses in the countries in the Arabian Peninsula. This will help the countries find these terrorists and foil their attempts to carry out their criminal acts.
ازهر كريم
2010-12-29
Saudi Arabia is now playing a major role in the fight against terrorism. It is trying to eliminate all its followers and leaders in particular, through the operations that take place from time to time, targeting the headquarters of al-Qaeda and the places where young people are being recruited, in addition to the existing leaders in Saudi Arabia and the staff working under cover with the al-Qaeda terrorist network.
كريم حسان
2010-12-25
This terrorist organization, along with other similar groups, is located in areas with an environment suitable for its growth, and in countries without a well-established military response.
سامي الحطاب
2010-12-25
Why is terrorism hitting everyone? Most countries try continuously to do away with the terrorism represented by al-Qaeda. They use multiple ways of doing so; either by cutting off funding or by depriving it of physical or military support, by preventing weapons from reaching its affiliates. These operations are markedly varied, according to the locations of terrorist groups in a certain place or a specific country, as well as their activity in different areas.
عبدالواحد جميل
2010-12-25
Saudi Arabia is always accused of being responsible for these acts of terror. On this basis, Saudi Arabia has been accused frequently of being the source of terrorist groups that carry out murder, sabotage and bombings, and of funding them, because they are the closest to Iraq; al-Qaeda groups are believed to be affiliated with the Sunni groups. As a result, Saudi Arabia is believed to be the supporter of these groups. But in fact, those who carry out these acts are people whose loyalty been bought at low prices, and they are directed to enter into Iraq by Iran and carry out aggressive attacks against the two communities, Sunnis and Shiites, in order to plant the spirit of dissension between the two communities, to keep the people and government occupied with these issues, while it, Iran, interferes substantially in the affairs of Iraq. They want to occupy Iraq with their malicious schemes. Iran should stop exporting terrorism immediately, to avoid a response. It should consider what has happened in Iraq in terms of harm, destruction and devastation, and none of the states should interfere in Iraqi affairs; they should pay attention to the affairs of their own countries. It is therefore essential not to accuse or fabricate charges against anyone, because Saudi Arabia is one of the first countries to fight the terrorist thought and groups of al-Qaeda that are exported from Iran to Iraq. The people of Iraq will get rid of these terrorist groups, God willing, and return Iraq to its security and stability, like other countries that experience peace.
محمد الجنابى
2010-12-25
The Saudi government is taking the necessary actions in order to find the locations of terrorist groups which are spread throughout Saudi Arabia, to stop the flow of these groups to other countries and to prevent their destructive acts all over the world. They should be pursued, wherever they are and as soon as possible. The cooperation of the arrested elements of these groups with the security forces will prevent the killing of more innocent people by al-Qaeda terrorist groups. When the members of these groups find out that their leaders have been arrested, they will be afraid and will abandon their terrorist acts, because their fate will be the same as that of their leaders, who have fallen into the hands of the security forces, because they are failed groups carrying out cowardly terrorist acts. They will know that, because their leaders have been arrested, it will be easier to reach the elements that have been recruited and directed to implement acts of terror, which cause the shedding of innocent blood and instilling fear and terror in people’s souls, in order to keep them at their mercy. But it is impossible for them to reach their goals and their wishes, as long as there are watchful forces pursuing them and acting to maintain the security and safety of the citizens. They will not be able to continue their cowardly and malicious plots of terror.
مرشد خليل
2010-12-25
The Saudi government conducted a heroic work in order to reach the leaders of the groups of al-Qaeda, and this is evidence of the ongoing work and successful planning to arrest the head of the evil snake. This will make it easy to reach the rest of the associates confidently and courageously. We all hope that the Saudi government undertakes the responsibility of raising the level of security to maintain the safety and comfort of the citizens in Saudi Arabia. This will also include the Arab countries, where terror will be reduced in the rest of the remaining Arab countries.
جودت العربي
2010-12-25
What the terrorist groups of al-Qaeda are carrying out are schemes and machinations directed by a regional state, Iran. It exports terrorist groups and funds them, whether by money, weapons, explosives, triggering mechanisms or even leaders who direct the recruited people to carry out bombings, terrorist acts, murder, kidnapping, laying booby traps, and sowing sectarianism and discrimination among people.
رافت
2010-12-25
The detainees, al-Qaeda leaders who were captured by the Saudi government, can be interrogated, so they will give important information to the security authorities, which will enable them to arrest the remaining al-Qaeda terrorist groups in the Arabian Peninsula, in order to get rid of them. They must cooperate with the official investigating authorities and reveal the places and caches of the al-Qaeda groups. They have adequate information that can help find those groups. The detained leaders are fully aware of who belongs to them and where the weapons and explosives can be found, as well as the places of meetings in which they gather to direct their affiliates. They are fully aware of all the schemes that have been carried out and the ones which will be carried out by the groups recruited by the leaders of the al-Qaeda terrorist network. The competent investigating authorities should be more assertive, in order to get useful and true information that will benefit the security authorities in very quickly finding out about future killings that are being planned, to save people from these cowardly terrorist groups that want to kill everyone. They want to blow up and ruin Saudi Arabia and all the Arab countries, because Saudi Arabia is the source of these terrorist groups that are based on the spread of violence and terror among people.
جوهر عمر
2010-12-21
Iran and other terrorists don't know that Saudi Arabia has heroes whose main concern is to defend their homeland and the people of their country, and to protect their holy land, the land of the Holy House of God. We pray that God would do away with all traitorous terrorists who want ruin for this safe country, and would protect His House from the enemies, whose only goal is to control the country and to distort the reputation of Islam and Muslims.
كمال غانم
2010-12-21
We hope that the sole concern of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would be to preserve the country and its people, to support Islam, and to eliminate terrorism completely. I hope that Iran would be stricken like it has never experienced, and that it would break for good, God willing.
نهاد الجواد
2010-12-21
The Saudi government is one of the most important national governments in terms of arresting treacherous gangs like the Al-Qaeda organization and other organizations. Arresting the leaders of such organizations is a good thing, as it facilitates the government's efforts to gather information by pressuring those leaders to give up serious and important information, which might help with the arrest of other members and leaders who outrank them. Those arrested by the Saudi government have to give information leading to the secret hiding places of the high-ranking leaders in their organizations, and to give information which would limit terrorism in their countries, represented by bombings and wiring cars, which claims the lives of many victims, including children, women and old people. These terrorist organizations have expanded their scope to include many countries, including Iraq, Yemen and Saudi Arabia, not realizing that Saudi Arabia has strong men capable of defeating those cowardly terrorists. And I swear that they have no religion, with their cowardly actions and their shameful, filthy history, even though they claim and allege that they are promoting Islam. That is why we think that the information the leaders have is very important. This is why we demand that the Saudi government conduct intense interrogations of those cowardly terrorists. It will make them give the government useful information, in order to make important and well thought-out plans. They need to use aggressive and manipulative, deliberate techniques on them, to obtain important information and to rid the world of their evil and their criminal, cowardly actions. We hope that the Saudi government will intensify its search for high-ranking members of Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, which contribute to corrupting the country and terrorizing innocent citizens. We in turn thank the Saudi government and encourage it to carry out these important actions, which are all in the best interest of the Arab and Gulf countries. And we pray that God will drive terrorism away from Islam and Muslims, and that the Saudi government will preserve those leaders, because they will lead us to the snake’s head, which poisons the minds of the people and youth.
عبدالناصر
2010-12-21
Al-Qaeda must be in direct contact with Iran, because Iran is the source of all evil; this shows in its interference in the affairs of Arab countries, especially Iraq and Saudi Arabia. It sneaks across the borders, sending cowards to these countries to spread ruin and destruction. Iran has a role in most of the terrorist bombings which have taken place in Iraq, as the missiles and mortars used in these bombings were all made in Iran. Iran wasn't satisfied with what happened in Iraq, but then aimed at Saudi Arabia, to turn the sectarian mess there into violent actions. Iran has the ability to assist terrorists who go to Saudi Arabia to further expand their criminal activity, as both Iraq and Saudi Arabia are rich in oil and other important resources. That is why Iran tries to utilize every available opportunity to destroy those two countries, and also because they have many Arab Sunnis, whom Iran hates very much. So, we demand that the Saudi government give more attention and care to this important subject. We have to unite and be as one hand, to destroy terrorism and terrorists and to send terrorism to hell on earth.
احمد الصادق
2010-12-17
Saudi Arabia is like the other countries that faced the terrorism of Al-Qaeda. The Kingdom has confronted this terrorist organization many times, and attacked and dismantled its cells that tried to become active from time to time on its lands. The kingdom has also arrested many of the members of Al-Qaeda. This means that it exerts extraordinary efforts to protect its citizens and lands from the terrorist acts that target the Saudis and the Kingdom’s infrastructure. Hence, when we hear that the Kingdom has dismantled 19 terrorist cells affiliated with Al-Qaeda, this is a great achievement on the part of the Kingdom, to save Saudi society from terrorism. Terrorism has negatively affected all the people in the Kingdom, by spreading its poisonous ideas, through which it tries to attract some people to join its ranks and use them in its terrorist operations in the Kingdom. Al-Qaeda also tries to export some of these cells abroad, if this is possible.
الجعفري
2010-12-17
The al-Qaeda terrorist organization and its founder, Osama bin Laden, only deserve our resentment for all the barbaric crimes and terrorist attacks they have carried out against all of humanity. We have received nothing from this organization that claims religion, but only inhumane acts: murders, bombings and continuous terrorist operations.
مهيب صلاح
2010-12-17
Saudi Arabia is among the most important countries that face and fight terrorism on their territories. There are some active Al-Qaeda cells that carry out some criminal operations every now and then, and try to spread their poisonous ideologies among the immature youth in order to gain their sympathy. The Saudi security forces have pursued members of this organization within the Kingdom, confronted them and killed their leaders. They have also dismantled cells of this organization which, together with their work within the Kingdom, recruit terrorists, killers and suicide bombers to send them outside the Kingdom and support them with all means. Therefore, the security forces have worked on dismantling these cells, by arresting their members and cutting off all kinds of military support, such as weapons, explosives and money that they use to lure and attract supporters. Thus, the Saudi security forces have managed to reduce the danger of this organization and its influence on people inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
2010-12-17
Everybody knows about the al-Qaeda terrorist organization and its sick ideologies.
رياض المكي
2010-12-17
Saudi Arabia is one of the states that fight terrorism, which has spread to many countries. One of the claims circulating about Saudi Arabia is that it funds the terrorist ideology; but actually, it is against this ideology, which has been adopted especially by many young people. The focus of these young people is Saudi Arabia but the Saudi forces are pursuing these groups in order to eliminate them entirely. Saudi Arabia has dismantled nineteen terrorist cells belonging to al-Qaeda, and this defeats a large number of these groups that kill people. It is necessary to eliminate these groups, which wreaked havoc in the land. They have intimidated people from all sects and religions, without making any distinction between people. So it is important to pursue these terrorist groups inside Saudi Arabia. The competent forces should eliminate these groups, as they did with the nineteen terrorist cells of al-Qaeda, by exerting major efforts to save the lives of the people and a lot of the young people who join such terrorist groups. Saudi Arabia is a country that is against ideas that incite terrorism and an ideology that disperses people, communities and religions, and encourages murder and bloodshed, bombings, booby-trapping and suicide attacks. These have long been encouraged by the terrorist ideology, on the grounds that it is jihad and that it serves Islam and Muslims. But it contradicts the principles of Islam. Saudi Arabia is a country of Islam and Muslims, and it is a country of safety, security and peace, and not a country of terrorism or crime. We must, therefore, eliminate such devastating groups that want evil for the people and the country. May God grant safety and security to our beloved Iraq, in order for Iraq to return to what it was before, God willing.
فاروق وصفي
2010-12-14
I want to curse Al-Qaeda and all its members, especially the so-called Osama bin Laden, because they have killed people and terrified them without any distinction. Al-Qaeda is a criminal and terrorist group that recruits the youth, women and children to carry out what they call the Jihadi operations, to kill the largest possible number of innocent people who have done nothing wrong. This dangerous and horrible group carries out many cowardly acts, such as suicide attacks, massacres, slaughter, explosions, threatening and displacement that target all people. They plant fear in the souls of innocent children who have done nothing wrong. These terrorist organizations have created hell on earth and attacked places and people in all countries, particularly the Arab countries. This group and its leaders try to incite sectarian strife everywhere without any justification. They want to sow the seeds of dissension and destroy the unity of all countries by infiltrating people and causing tensions and fear to control the whole world through their terrorist acts that kill many people unfairly. Hence, we must eliminate Al-Qaeda and its cells through the military attacks, and by chasing them everywhere to limit their movement, to stop their terrorist acts, and to get rid of them completely. May God curse them in this world and in the hereafter. Iraq will remain always lofty despite the spiteful people, who do not wish good for Iraq or for the patient and resistant Iraqi people, who reject their terrorism.
ابو الحسن
2010-12-14
All countries are required to be always on the alert to prevent the spread of these cowardly terrorist organizations, who work in darkness, because all their acts and activities are illegal. They are cowards, criminals and thieves. Hence, they always work in the shadows, contrary to the army elements or the policemen who arrest them in broad daylight and not secretly. The military forces and the army are the protectors and defenders of the home against the intruders who want to harm the country and its people. The police and the army defend the country and the citizens from harm.
عبدالفتاح خيري
2010-12-14
The dismantling of 19 cells of Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia provides clear evidence that these groups are active in the Saudi lands and that they carry out attacks on the innocents who are not guilty of anything. This also proves that the Saudi forces perform their duties perfectly, by monitoring and hunting the terrorist groups and cells that carry out terrorist operations. The Saudi security forces have gotten all these deviant elements under control, to prevent them from carrying out attacks on the innocents with the aim of killing the largest possible number of them, because they are bloodthirsty. Hence, I call on the Saudi security forces to be always on the alert, to confront the dangerous terrorist elements that target all people. The Saudi government must keep an eye on the internal situation so that Saudi Arabia will remain a country of peace and security, rather than a source of evils and tensions in the world. This is not the Saudi Arabia that we know. As for the Saudi security forces, they must be watchful and follow the conditions of the country by monitoring everything, so that all the cells of Al-Qaeda will realize that it is very difficult for them to move or carry out terrorist attacks. They must also realize that the security forces are vigilant and watchful. If this happens, Al-Qaeda will know that they will never be able to infiltrate any country easily, as long as it has a strong army and watchful security forces that hunt such terrorist groups. In this way, we will succeed in limiting the spread of these armed and terrorist groups that carry out terrorist operations, such as killing, kidnapping, slaughtering, threatening, terrorizing people and spreading evil.
حمدي النصراوي
2010-12-14
We all want this terrorist organization to be eradicated. It claims religion and says that it is aiming at supporting Islam and Muslims in all countries. However, the truth that has been revealed only shows that this organization used women, children and even animals and lunatics in implementing their real objective, which is killing the largest possible number of innocent people in this world. These maniacs try to exploit anything to conduct their terrorist operations and to attract the attention of the media and the world to themselves to prove that they are here and that they are strong. I really hope that the head of the snake, Osama, and all his followers will be eradicated, because they have sold their conscience to the devil, and have forgotten their religion and their home countries.
فوزي عبد الحميد
2010-12-14
Saudi Arabia is accused of being one of the countries that are a source of terrorism, and many of its youth are accused of belonging to terrorist organizations. However, the truth is that Saudi Arabia is one of the toughest countries in confronting terrorism and Al-Qaeda, because it cooperates greatly with international anti-terrorism services. Saudi Arabia arrests all terrorist leaders who try to infiltrate its territory, even if they have forged identities and passports. It seriously and continuously works on pursuing Al-Qaeda cells that are trying to recruit the largest possible number of Saudi youths through the false fatwas that are issued by some criminal self-proclaimed religious scholars who support Al-Qaeda. They send young people to work in Afghanistan and receive training, and then they send them to their death in atrocious ways. Therefore, I strongly believe that it is essential to eradicate all the cells responsible for recruiting young people, which are the source of Al-Qaeda's strength. Directing blows at these cells and dismantling them will lead to the significant weakening of Al-Qaeda and ultimately eradicating it. Thus, Saudi Arabia's dismantling of nineteen Al-Qaeda cells is a significant blow to terrorism that will eventually lead to the destruction and collapse of Al-Qaeda, not only in Saudi Arabia, but in the whole world.
صادق محمد
2010-12-14
We all support the continuous fight of Saudi Arabia and its security forces against terrorism, and I would like to thank them for the tremendous operations they have recently carried out, which resulted in the dismantling of more than nineteen terrorist cells affiliated with the most dangerous organization in the world, Al-Qaeda. This will not only be beneficial to Saudi Arabia, but it will help preserve security and stability in the whole region, because these terrorists, with their connection to Al-Qaeda, were certainly planning to carry out attacks in all countries of the region. Therefore, their arrest will preserve the lives of the innocents in the region as a whole, and save them from the assassinations and bombings of Al-Qaeda.
بديع سليم
2010-12-14
Dismantling these cells and arresting their members will preserve a lot of the Saudi youth from getting influenced by these terrorist organizations that try to take advantage of religious orientations among young people, in order to involve them in terrorist acts under the name of religion.
2010-12-14
Like any infectious disease, al-Qaeda must be treated radically, otherwise it will spread everywhere.
2010-12-14
The terrorists are the filthiest creatures, and they must be treated firmly and be executed by Saudi Arabia.
عمار عبدالله
2010-12-12
It is really crucial for Saudi Arabia to dismantle Al-Qaeda cells in order to rid the entire world of their evils and the dirty operations they carry out for the sake of their secret agendas. Whenever they penetrate into a country, they only cause destruction and sow tribal dissension. They carry out kidnappings and murders and they brainwash people, luring them with money and using youths to carry out suicide operations. However, they do not know that all their plans are doomed to failure, thanks to the brave citizens and officials, whose main concern is to defend their homeland and fellow citizens. God curse all the cowardly terrorists who want to destroy our homeland and shed innocent blood. I would like to thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, its government and all military personnel for the efforts they made in order to provide safety and security and to defend their homeland and their people, by dismantling many of the cowardly terrorists' cells. Al-Qaeda will be totally eradicated, thanks to God and to the brave men. I ask the government and the military to put together well-studied plans in order to eradicate the remaining terrorists, to get them out of the Holy Land and to keep them far away from the House of the Holy God. We ask God to protect our homelands and to protect us from all evil.
عصام صدقي
2010-12-11
May God curse Al-Qaeda and the origin of the scourge, Osama bin Laden.
ابراهيم عيساوي
2010-12-11
Terrorists are distorting the image of Islam and Muslims. We have nothing to do with Ayman Al Zawahiri or with the other suspects. If they are manly enough, let them get down from the mountains they are hiding in and confront the enemy face to face, and let them leave the innocent people in peace and safety.
جلال اكرم
2010-12-11
Saudi Arabia has been working for quite a long time on fighting Al-Qaeda on its territory, and this shows that Al-Qaeda is no longer powerful, as it was previously in many countries. They have become pursued and persecuted everywhere, even in Saudi Arabia, which is considered to be the origin of terrorism and extremism. The Saudi forces have become able to direct quality strikes against this dirty organization, and, thank God, they managed to successfully dismantle nineteen terrorist cells affiliated with Al-Qaeda. You can imagine the amount of progress that has been achieved by the arrests of these murderers. If they had not been pursued and captured, they would have been free, planning to target public interests in the Kingdom and to ignite riots there in one way or another. Therefore, I would like to ask the Saudi government to focus its efforts on better fighting terrorism and Al-Qaeda on its territory, by educating people. Saudi religious scholars should raise people's awareness of the extent of the criminality of this organization, and they should issue fatwas outlawing dealing with it, because it has tarnished the image of Islam in the Western world. As for the Saudi security forces, they should exploit the deterioration of Al-Qaeda and continue directing strikes at its elements, so as not to give them a chance to regroup and reorganize their ranks.
فلاح عيسى
2010-12-11
Killing and slaughtering innocent citizens is totally antithetical to Islam. Get out, Osama, from your hiding place, and leave the innocents alone. Do not forget that there will come a day when you get your due punishment, as did Zarqawi and all the other traitors. Do not forget that there are heroes who are capable of defending their homelands and their beliefs, and that many of the weak people whom you brainwashed and lured with money will one day regret their actions and get their due punishment. We will destroy them, God willing, and we will teach them a lesson they have never learned before.
عبدالرزاق صالح
2010-12-10
The Saudi security forces dismantled more than nineteen terrorist cells, and this large number is not only positive, but it is excellent. It will be a direct contribution to the stability of the region in general and Saudi Arabia in particular, because they destroyed all these cells that were either working with terrorism or were related to it. But the Saudi forces are fighting these ideas and trying to destroy these terrorist projects. This dismantling will help to maintain security and stability in Saudi Arabia, where no terrorist can plant an explosive device or shoot one bullet into the air without everyone knowing who did it or what his fate is. I think it is a major task which deserves to be commended, because everyone works so hard against this terrorist organization, al-Qaeda, to get rid of it as a believer in religion, nationalism and Arabism.
ماهر طلعت
2010-12-10
Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that mostly fight terrorism and al-Qaeda, despite the many allegations that it is the source of terrorism, or that its young people drift toward al-Qaeda. As a matter of fact, the Saudi government stands publicly against terrorism in every way. Saudi Arabia is one of the authentic Arab Muslim countries and it is the holiest spot in the world because of the existence of the house of God and the Prophet's tomb on its land. It cannot be a haven for terrorism or a land that exports death. The Saudi security forces have dismantled nineteen terrorist cells existing on the land of Saudi Arabia. Perhaps these cells have thought about launching attacks here or there, or carrying out terrorist acts in the region. They could have also been recruiting young people, to send them to work with al-Qaeda. This was prevented by the continuous efforts of Saudi Arabia in tracking all the cells, members and leaders of al-Qaeda, and in its willingness to cooperate in any way possible.
عبد الله
2010-12-3
This news is absolutely untrue!