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Saudi raids net weapons, terrorism suspectsSome may have links to Riyadh bombings, officials say
KUWAIT CITY (CNN) -- Saudi Arabia said Monday that it seized huge quantities of weapons and explosives, including bomb belts worn by suicide attackers, in raids that also resulted in the capture of an undisclosed number of terrorism suspects.
Some of them may be linked to the bombings at a complex housing Westerners that killed almost two dozen people and 12 suspected attackers in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, in May. Monday's raids were staged in a shopping district in Riyadh, a villa in Jeddah, an underground storage cache in Mecca, and homes, farms and desert wells around the kingdom, said a statement from the Saudi Interior Ministry. The number of people taken in for questioning was not disclosed, but sources said some already were wanted on suspicion of possible links to the May attacks. Nine of those killed were Americans. Saudi security forces defused the bomb belts and large quantities of RDX and C-4 explosives, as well as 56 homemade bombs and bomb-making components. Also seized were Kalashnikov rifles, tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, gas masks, brochures with instructions on how to conduct terrorist attacks and kill people, and personal letters urging others to commit acts of terrorism.
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