Saudi Arabia launched a wide-reaching domestic security operation that resulted in the arrests of 431 individuals accused of having links to the IS
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia launched a wide-reaching domestic security operation that resulted in the arrests of 431 individuals accused of having links to the IS. Among the charges were plans to attack mosques, and security and government buildings, along with an unnamed diplomatic mission.
This arrest operation now joins a growing list of security incidents with links to IS, and includes the disruption of a plot to target the US embassy with a car bomb in March, the killing of police officers in April, and the suicide bombing of two Shia mosques in May.
Reports say that a large number of IS terrorists fighting in Iraqi and Syria are from Saudi Arabia and will inevitably return to Saudi Arabia, looking to establish domestic terrorist cells by spreading the message of IS in mosques and on the internet.
