Saudi authorities bust ISIS cell near Makkah

[Syed Asif Bukhari]

Saudi authorities bust ISIS cell near Makkah

Staff writer, Al Arabiya EnglishThursday, 5 May 2016



Saudi security forces on Thursday busted a cell of five alleged ISIS fighters in the Saudi city of Makkah, authorities said.

"The security authorities succeeded in their operation against a number of ISIS partisans holed up at a recreational area in Makkah," the local authorities said in a tweet. Makkah is Islam's holiest city and key site of the annual hajj pilgrimage.

Authorities gave no details, but sources said that the forces surrounded a group of men in the Wadi Noman area south of the city where a group of five ISIS fighters had been hiding.

Sources said that some of them men were killed in a gun battle. Saudi security forces deployed helicopters to back up forces on the ground.

According to Saudi sources, the cell was preparing to attack a security base around a house where the ISIS fighters had gathered.

In an earlier, two-day security operation that ended on Sunday, two ISIS suspects were killed and a third was wounded in southwestern Bisha province.

The operation came shortly after the Saudi security forces arrested Ukab Atibi, a member of the ISIS cell that had carried out a suicide attack on a mosque used by members of a local security force in southwest Saudi Arabia in August 2015.

 

[Metanoia]

The Saudi intelligence network is really quite solid and strong. I've personally known and witnessed (from distance of course) the various Saudi LEAs conducting preemptive strikes against extremely hardcore elements n Riyadh and Qaseem.

Considering the strength of this particular segment existing within Saudi Arabia prescribing to this certain ideology and their volatile bestial nature, the very few terrorist attacks which have taken place within the state are a testament to the effectiveness and the efficiency of Saudi intelligence.

 

[alarabi]

These idiots and whoever is behind them can't really achieve any progress in Saudi Arabia. They will face the same fate that their siblings in Alqaeda and Hezbollah encountered.

Pictures from the place where the Saudi emergency forces killed members of Daesh

 

[somebozo]

Saudis agencies have infiltrated many of these ranks so they do not find it hard to conduct operations against there elements and track their movement..Saudi Mabahith is very strong..