Saudi Arabia

Saudi security forces arrested 56 al Qaeda operatives for plotting attacks inside the kingdom. The operatives were said to have received instructions from Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second in command, and were in the final stages of conducting attacks.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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