Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH — The Saudi security authorities arrested on Monday 13 terrorists who were planning to carry out criminal attacks, targeting the Kingdom’s security and its capabilities. According to spokesman of the Presidency of State Security, the arrests were made as a preemptive security operation as a result of the follow-up action.

In a related development, the spokesman said that all four terrorists who were killed during their foiled bid to attack the Bureau of Investigation station in Zulfi on Sunday were Saudis and they belonged to Daesh (the so-called IS) terror outfit.

Security officials seized huge cache of arms and explosives from their hideout.

It was revealed in the preliminary investigations that all terrorists were Saudi nationals. They are Abdullah Hamoud Muhammad Al-Hamoud, Abdullah Ibrahim Muhammad Al-Mansour, Samir Abdul Aziz Abdul Karim Al-Madeed, and Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Abdul Karim Al-Madeed.

The investigations showed that Abdullah Hamoud, one of the terrorists, rented a rest house in Al-Rayyan district in Zulfi and made it their hideout to prepare and plan the foiled attack.

The Presidency officials found that the hideout had been converted into a factory for manufacturing explosives and suicide belts. There were five suicide belts, of which four were used by the slain terrorists while the fifth one was found inside their car.

The seized explosives and arms from the hideout included 64 homemade grenades, 61 pipe plumbing joint for manufacturing pipe bombs, three pressure cookers that are ready for detonation, two Kalashnikov machine gun, six pistols, 11 knives, four bags containing 74.9 kg of organic fertilizers, materials for manufacturing explosives, chemicals, set of screws that were equipped with shrapnel, in addition to a laptop, three mobile phones, a wireless set, a set of ATM cards, two national identity cards, 10 papers with the will of one of the perpetrators, a number of publications and 11 CD-ROMs with content related to terrorist organization.