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Saudi governments offers further details on Mecca Thursday events

IRNA

Riyadh, Nov 7, IRNA -- An informed source at the Interior Ministry of 
Saudi Arabia offered a more detailed account on Thursday terrorist 
incidents in Mecca, in an interview with SPA on Friday. 
The Saudi Press Agency (SPA), carried an interview with the Saudi 
official who spoke on condition of anonymity and said, "Two terrorists
who were besieged at a team house in Holy Mecca`s Ash-Sharaye`a 
district by Saudi security officers committed suicide exploding two 
hand grenades." 
He added, "A machine gun, a few hand grenades, five fuses prepared
for usage on heavy bombs, and some explosives were discovered at the 
team house where the besieged terrorists committed suicide." 
Without making reference to the nationalities of the terrorists 
killed on Thursday, the Saudi official said, "The Saudi government is 
quite competent in confrontation with any groups wishing to disturb 
the security of the citizens of this Islamic country, and will crush 
any threats against Saudi national security." 
During armed clashes between the terrorists and Saudi security 
forces in Riyadh, too, one more armed Saudi dissident got killed and 
eight Saudi security officials got wounded. 
Also last Monday, in armed clashes between Saudi security forces 
and terrorists in Mecca`s Al-Khazra and Ash-Sharaye`a district, two 
terrorists got killed and six more of them were arrested. 
NA/214 
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