Saudi Arabia

Security officials said recently detained al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives “planned to rob banks and companies to finance their operations” and plotted to assassinate Sauid officials. “Using poisoned perfume which they planned to send as gifts is one of the ways the arrested people planned to carry out their assassinations.”

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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