Saudis arrest 93 ISIL operatives

AP/Guardian:
Saudi authorities say they have arrested 93 people with ties to Islamic State (Isis) in recent months, foiling their plans to carry out terrorist attacks including a strike on the US embassy in Riyadh.

Interior ministry spokesman, Maj Gen Mansour al-Turki, said on Tuesday the arrests include a group of 65 people arrested in March who were involved in a plan that included targeting residential compounds, prisons and security forces.

He said authorities also disrupted a suicide car bomber’s plot to attack the US embassy in the capital after receiving information about the plan in mid-March.

A spokesman for the US embassy in Riyadh had no immediate comment.

The timing of the alleged suicide attack, however, matches with a decision by US officials to halt all consular services for a week from 15 March at the embassy and two other diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia over security fears.
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Saudi intelligence is some of the best in the Middle East.  It also highlight the threat ISIL poses to world order and their global ambitions.  It will probably not be the last attempt by ISIL in the region.

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