Saudi TV shows pictures for redeeming al-Qaida members

Saudi Arabia's ministry of the interior accused persons who said to carry deviant thoughts to seek imposition their views by means of " terror."

The Saudi TV screened a statement by the ministry which said that the Saudi security forces were able during the past 6 months to foil criminal operations, and arrested several persons known as advocates of destruction and deadly thinking, and also a large group of mislead, according to the statement.

The Saudi TV also showed large amounts of weapons, ammunition and explosives said to have been owned by them. The TV also showed several redeemed al-Qaida members who admitted their participation in several attacks in Saudi Arabia. But the report hid the names and faces of the detainees.

The redeemed detainees said that they were tempted after they listening to lectures on Jihad duty in Islam, and to recorded tapes for the leader of al-Qaida organization Osama Bin Laden, to convince them to take weapons.

Others told how they were tempted in order to establish a purely Islamic state, and implement religious duties by safeguarding the Arab Peninsula from non- Muslims, and that they had considered other Muslims who do not share same thinking as non believers.

The Saudi TV also broadcasted a governmental call to the Saudi parents so as to protect their children from what it called the "exploitation of the terrorist groups which use them to flare up the fire of crime and aggression."