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Riyadh: Saudi Arabia yesterday dismissed reports saying that foiling of attempts by terrorists to carry out attacks in and outside Saudi Arabia was carried out in cooperation with foreign security bodies.
The Saudi Ministry of Interior announced on Friday that its security forces had arrested 172 suspects and seized weapons, computers and more than 20 million Saudi riyals (about Dh 20 million) in cash in a pre-emptive strike to neutralise terrorist cells. Some of the militants caught had been planning to carry out airborne attacks against oil facilities and army bases, the interior ministry said.
Operations
In press statements yesterday, the Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman General Mansour Al Turki denied that his security personnel received any outside assistance in their operations against terrorists.
Al Turki said that the Saudi security forces alone did the job and dismissed media reports of cooperation between Saudi security forces and foreign ones during the operations.
Al Turki was responding to reports carried by some Qatari and Kuwaiti newspapers saying that Kuwaiti and Egyptian authorities cooperated with Saudi authorities in cracking terrorist cells.
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