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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44378)	8/16/2003 7:20:09 PM
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Saudi Arabia to question 12,000 citizens (Updated at 0940 PST) RYADH: Riyadh launches full-scale anti-terrorism sweep as rulers acquiesce to American demands to interrogate long list of potential suspects, a press report said on Saturday. Saudi Arabian authorities have embarked on a vast anti-terrorism operation in which up to 12,000 citizens will be questioned at the behest of the US, a Saudi opposition group has told the Guardian. The Saudi government is doing a full-scale sweeping activity, said Saad al-Fagih, of the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia. Several sources in the kingdom had told him of a substantial list, provided by the US, naming Saudi citizens to be questioned or arrested, he said. One source put the number of names at 12,000. Others gave lower figures but all were well into the thousands. The information had been compiled by the US from various countries, including Pakistan, Bosnia, and Russia. Over 3000 terrorists nabbed worldwide: US (Updated at 0910 PST) WASHINGTON: The United States and its allies have detained more than 3,000 terrorists in more than 100 countries since the terrorist attacks on the US nearly two years ago, a senior counter-terrorism official of the State Department said. Entire cells have been disbanded across the globe -- just as they were planning more attacks, Ambassador Cofer Black said at the International Association of Prosecutors conference here, a foreign news agency reported on Saturday. More than one half of al-Qaeda's top leadership has been killed or captured, including some of those who conspired to attack New York and Washington and others who helped attack the USS Cole and the US embassies in East Africa, he said. Black, who is US State Department's coordinator for counter-terrorism, said that more than 170 countries have issued orders to freeze terrorists' assets, so far, more than $144 million frozen. 13 charged in alleged plot against U.S. targets in Jordan (Updated at 0850 PST) AMMAN: Military prosecutors charged 13 suspects with conspiring to attack American targets in Jordan, including the United States Embassy and Jordanian bases where the alleged plotters believed U.S. troops were stationed, a foreign news agency reported on Saturday. Jordanian officials said four of the suspects — three Saudis and a Jordanian — still at large would be tried in absentia starting next month. The 13-page indictment says the conspirators received rockets, grenades and detonators from Iraq via a Jordanian truck driver. One official said the suspects have no apparent connection to Al Qaeda.