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The US Treasury Department has designated all of the branches of the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, including its headquarters in Saudi Arabia, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity. Al Haramain “provided financial and material support to al Qaeda, as well as a wide range of designated terrorists and terrorist organizations.” Treasury said the Saudi […]

A former al Qaeda fighters in the Balkans testified at a UN trial that the Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an agency of the Saudi government, funded his unit’s activities during the 1990s. He said the Saudi agency funneled tens of millions of dollars into mujahideen units led by al Qaeda […]

The Saudi government has released 32 terrorists transferred by the US from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. They were freed on bail after being questioned and undergoing rehabilitation sessions with clerics and other experts aimed at reintegrating them into Saudi society, according to Al Hayat. Twenty-four Saudi terrorists are still undergoing rehabilitation in the kingdom.

Saudi Arabia remains the world’s leading source for funds to al Qaeda and other terror groups, according to Stuart A. Levey, the Treasury’s lead counterterrorism official. “Saudi Arabia today remains the location where more money is going to terrorism, to Sunni terror groups and to the Taliban than any other place in the world.”

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.

Saudi leaders threatened UK investigators to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations of its arms deals with BAE are halted. Prince Bandar, the head of the Saudi national security council and former ambassador to the US, threatened to cut of intelligence to the UK and told investigators their country faced […]

Security forces arrested 28 al Qaeda operatives for plotting to attack sites related to the annual hajj pilgrimage. The suspects were arrested in Mecca, Medina, and Riyadh and in an area near the country’s northern borders. Twenty-seven of the 28 suspects were Saudi citizens.

Saudi authorities stated they arrested over 200 members of al Qaeda cells during raids throughout the country over the past several months. The arrest of eight of the operatives “pre-empted an imminent attack on an oil installation.” Others arrested included foreign facilitators and members of support networks and a missile cell.

The Saudi government has released over 1,500 jailed al Qaeda operatives and supporters after they denounced Osama bin Laden’s call on his followers to “cleanse the Arabian Peninsula of polytheists.” Over 1,700 al Qaeda operatives still remain in Saudi custody.