Operations in Riyadh in search for al-Qaida members, 8 Saudi soldiers wounded in clashes
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 11/18/2002

Some 8 Saudi security men were wounded, many of them in critical health conditions on Saturday in Riyadh in a clashes with persons suspected to be supporters for Osama Bin Laden, one of them was wounded and then arrested, according to a source for the Saudi opposition and one eye witness

The spokesman for the Islamic movement for reforms in Saudi Arabia, Saad al-Faqih, an opposition which takes London as a headquarters, said that the clash took place when the Saudi security forces tried to arrest a group of 50 armed "Jihad young men" of al-Qaida partisans who were meeting in a house in al-Shafaa quarters to the south of the capital.

The other members of the group were able to flee and the police is mopping up the quarters to arrest them, according to the spokesman who added that he got his information from citizens.

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