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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday that it had arrested 208 suspected terrorists in six cells and thwarted several planned attacks in the kingdom’s largest terrorism sweep to date.
Among the plots, the Interior Ministry said, the capture of eight al-Qaeda-linked suspects “pre-empted an imminent attack on an oil installation.” A statement said the eight were led by a non-Saudi man among those arrested.
Eighteen other suspects led by a non-Saudi missile expert were arrested for “planning to smuggle eight missiles into the kingdom to carry out terrorist operations,” the statement said.
The kingdom has been waging a heavy crackdown on al-Qaeda militants since a 2003 wave of attacks.
