Saudi police nab militants as pilgrims complete haj
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Saudi security forces arrested suspected al Qaeda militants planning attacks during the haj pilgrimage, a Saudi-owned television said on Friday as Muslim pilgrims performed the last rituals in Mecca.
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Saudi security forces have arrested seven suspected militants in a raid on an Islamic militant stronghold north of the capital, where an attack by militants
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MINA, Saudi Arabia  - Muslim pilgrims threw pebbles at a stone wall outside Mecca, shaved their heads and bought sacrificial animals on Wednesday, the third day of the annual haj pilgrimage to the Mecca area.
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Saudi Arabia has detained five people  suspected of spreading Islamic militant ideology in the  kingdom, which is battling an 18-month wave of al Qaeda  violence, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.
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MENA, Saudi Arabia  - Haj pilgrims pelted stones  at symbols of the devil on Friday, and many said they were  targeting President Bush and other world leaders seen as  oppressing Muslims.
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Police have arrested 11 suspected militants, including one allegedly involved in last year's foiled suicide attack on the world's largest oil processing facility, the Saudi Interior Ministry said Thursday.
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RIYADH : Saudi security forces raided a house in northern Riyadh Wednesday night and killed seven militants shortly after two car bomb attacks in the Saudi capital, security men at the scene said.
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RIYADH: Saudi security forces have killed seven militants suspected of involvement in twin car bombing attacks in Riyadh, reports Xinhua .
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Israeli police forces entered the area around the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and dispersed stone-throwing worshipers with stun grenades at the end of Friday prayers, the police said.
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Saudi security officials said Saturday they foiled a planned terrorist suicide attack and arrested 139 suspected Islamist militants who were in "sleeper cells" believed to be affiliated with al Qaeda.
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MINA, Saudi Arabia  - Saudi police were on alert on Friday as millions of Muslims were completing one of the last rituals of the annual haj pilgrimage, testing new crowd control arrangements at an accident spot on the haj itinerary.
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MUZDALIFAH, Saudi Arabia  - More than 2 million  Muslim pilgrims began arriving at Muzdalifah on Wednesday  evening ahead of a stoning ritual in this year's haj, which has  been overshadowed by the Asian tsunami disaster.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - "Move along, pilgrim, move along," say the Saudi policemen, trying to clear a path for ambulances or cleaning squads during the world's biggest gathering that is the annual haj pilgrimage to Mecca.
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Saudi police arrested a man with weapons hidden under his clothes as he tried to enter the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest site, a Saudi security official said on Friday.
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Saudi security forces thwarted planned  protest marches in the kingdom's two main cities on Thursday,  deploying in force in the capital Riyadh and arresting at least  a dozen people in the Red Sea port of Jeddah.
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Saudi security forces, battling a wave of terrorist attacks in the country, have clashed with a group of gunmen in the capital, Riyadh.
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Saudi security forces have arrested an unspecified number of al Qaeda militants suspected of planning attacks in the country during the ongoing Muslim haj pilgrimage, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said on Friday.