MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
|
|
Saudi Arabia arrests 18 for spying
By artappraiser on Tue, 03/19/2013 - 5:18pm |BBC News, March 19, 2013
An Iranian, a Lebanese and 16 Saudis have been arrested on spying charges in Saudi Arabia, officials say.
The 18 suspects had been "involved in a spying cell for a state", an interior ministry spokesman told state TV.
"They were gathering information about installations and vital areas in the country and providing intelligence agencies of that state with it," said ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki.
He did not name the country thought to be running the spy network [....]
URL:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21849907
- 362 reads