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MENA Observatory – Saudi Arabia
The Saudi security services announced the arrest of a terrorist cell that includes ten people who planned to carry out terrorist acts in the Kingdom, indicating that it is linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and some of its members have received military and field training for part of the guards.
Saudi Arabia’s State Security Presidency said in a statement that “the cell was arrested on September 22, after a security follow-up,” explaining that three of its members received military and field training within the sites of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran, during the period between October 25. October 2017 and December 8 of the same year.
He added that “among the works that the team was trained to implement were” methods and methods of manufacturing explosives, “noting that the security services seized a number of weapons and explosives hidden in two places, one of them a house and the other a farm, and includes bombs, rifles, communication tools and digital devices.
According to the statement, “the competent authorities have begun their investigations with all the detainees to find out more information about their activities and the people linked to them internally and externally, and they will be referred to the Judiciary after completing the investigations and procedures.”
The seizures include “9 explosive elbows in the event of entanglement, 67 explosive fuses, and 51 electrical detonators,” in addition to quantities of gunpowder, ammunition, and chemicals, advanced listening devices, machine guns, pistols and rifles, including a sniper rifle. , and bladed weapons.
