Saudi arrests 19 in connection with Saudi bombings: 12 Pakistanis and 7 Saudis

[Tamilnadu]

there is something wrong with the way Pakistanies think,something fundamental has to change otherwise who is left china ? For how long.

 

[Solomon2]

It was planned by a notorious agency to isolate Pakistan and to weak her economy by decreasing the remittances from GCC countries..

I think a more logical explanation, first bandied about last year, is that ISIS believes Pakistanis, Indians, etc. are less trustworthy and/or inferior to Arabs, and thus employs them for suicide missions: link

 

[Hamoon]

12 of 19 people arrested over Monday's three bomb attacks in Saudi Arabia are Pakistani, says interior ministry

https://twitter.com/x/status/751154510840598528

Send them to hell since many Afghans working in KSA and other M.E on Pakistani passports.

 

[Jf Thunder]

There is that element to it true....but other significant ones too that Pakistan should not ignore.

If the world increasingly says you are A, but you are the only ones saying you are B....maybe you should introspect?

Indian foreign policy is not all that pervasive to that extent.

atleast you have a Foreign Minister..........

 

[-xXx-]

I think a more logical explanation, first bandied about last year, is that ISIS believes Pakistanis, Indians, etc. are less trustworthy and/or inferior to Arabs, and thus employs them for suicide missions: link

Less trust worthy should never be deployed for suicide missions.

 

[Kraitcorp]

Saudi Arabia has arrested 12 Pakistanis and seven Saudis in connection with the suicide bombing on the prophet's mosque in the city of Medina and other attacks in Jeddah and Qatif. Suicide bombing hits holy Saudi city of Medina Saudi Arabia said a suicide bomber who attacked the prophet's mosque in the city of Medina on Monday was a 26-year-old Saudi citizen with a history of drug abuse.

Naer Muslim Hamad crossed a parking lot next to the mosque and detonated an explosive belt, killing four soldiers, the state news agency SPA quoted an interior ministry spokesman as saying.

The statement also named three individuals it said carried out attacks on Monday in Qatif. It said none of them had obtained Saudi IDs.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has vowed that his government will "strike with an iron fist".

"The kingdom is fully determined to strike with an iron fist all those who aim at the minds or ideas of our dear young people," Salman said on Tuesday, in an address to the nation for the Islamic feast of Eid al-Fitr.

The Medina attack, 24 hours before the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, drew condemnation from Muslim leaders worldwide.

A bombing near the US consulate in Jeddah on the same day killed only the attacker, and no casualties other than the bomber have been reported in Qatif.

The Saudi interior ministry identified the Jeddah attacker as Abdullah Waqar Khan, a Pakistani national in his early 30s. In a tweet, the ministry said that Khan, a driver, had moved to Jeddah 12 years ago to live with his wife and her parents.

Pakistan said on Tuesday that it was going to investigate whether the suicide bomber in Jeddah was one of its nationals.

Many observers suspect the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) of being behind the bombings.

The armed group, which controls areas of eastern Syria and northern Iraq, has frequently denounced the Saudi monarchy and has claimed previous attacks on Shia mosques in Qatif and elsewhere in the kingdom.

The group has claimed responsibility for Sunday's car bomb attack on a shopping street in the Iraqi capital Baghdad in which more than 200 people were killed.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/...onnection-saudi-bombings-160707214101387.html

 

[Aali Shafi]

There may be tons of sleeping cells of terrorist in Saudia which has to be unearth soon to root out the terrorisim.

 

[neem456]

There should e zero tolerance towards terrorists and other sleepr cells, no matter from which country they are.

 

[Sankpal]

Image copyrightEPA
Image captionFour security officers were killed in a suicide bomb in Medina

Saudi officials say 12 out of 19 people arrested over Monday's three bomb attacks in the country are Pakistani.

An interior ministry spokesman also named a suicide bomber who killed four security officers near a mosque in the sacred city of Medina as Naer Muslim Hamad, a 26-year-old Saudi man.

The ministry said he had a history of drug abuse.

Three people who allegedly carried out attacks in Qatif were also named. Their nationalities are not clear.

Their names were given as Abdulrahman al-Omar (23), Ibrahim al-Omar (20) and Abdulkarim al-Husni (20). The ministry said none of them had Saudi IDs.

The attacks in Qatif took place on the same day and were also suicide bombings.

A man died in Jeddah on Monday when attempting to detonate a bomb.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks yet but they are suspected to have been the work of people with allegiances to so-called Islamic State.

The group has targeted Saudi security personnel before. Some online observerspointed out that the guards had been protecting the Sunni-ruled country's Shia, who IS considers irredeemable apostates subject to punishment by death, and facilitating their access to the sacred cities Medina and Mecca.

The attacks happened at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, shocking many moderate Muslims. But after an IS spokesman called for "a month of calamity for unbelievers" there have been multiple attacks carried out by IS sympathisers across the world during Ramadan this year.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36742087

 

[Side-Winder]

RIYADH: Nineteen people, including 12 Pakistani nationals, have been arrested in Saudi Arabia following suicide attacks on Monday, including one near Islam’s second-holiest site in the city of Madina, the kingdom’s Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

Seven people are believed to have been killed and two wounded in three separate attacks — in Madina, at a Shia mosque in Qatif, and in western Jeddah, the economic capital, not far from the US consulate.

Jeddah suicide bomber was Pakistani: Saudi interior ministry

A 26-year-old Saudi man, Naer Moslem Hammad al-Balawi, who had a “history of drug use” had been identified as the perpetrator of the Madina attack, the ministry said in a statement published by the official SPA news agency.

The Qatif attack, it added, was carried out by three “terrorists,” including one man named as Abderrahman Saleh Mohammed al-Amr, 23, who it said was known to the security services for taking part in protests.

The Jeddah attacker was a Pakistani man identified as Abdullah Qalzar Khan, a driver who had been living in the city for 12 years, the ministry said earlier.

Four people were killed in the Madina explosion near the Prophet (PBUH)’s Mosque, which came as Muslims prepared for this week’s Eid al-Fitr festival marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramazan.

Four security officials killed in suicide blast outside Masjid Nabawi

The body parts of three people were found after another suicide bombing in the Shia-populated Gulf city of Qatif, the ministry said earlier.

Two police officers were wounded in the Jeddah attack.

The US embassy in Riyadh reported no casualties among consulate staff during the attack, which coincided with the US July 4 Independence Day holiday.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the interior minister, said while visiting the wounded policemen in Jeddah that the attacks would “only increase our solidarity and make us stronger.”

No group has claimed responsibility for Monday’s attacks so far.

However, a series of bombings and shootings claimed by the Islamic State group (IS) in Saudi Arabia since late 2014 has targeted minority Shias as well as the security forces, killing dozens.

Pakistan renews security pledge to Saudi Arabia

Most attacks have taken place in Eastern Province, home to the majority of the country’s Shias.

IS group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has called for attacks against Saudi Arabia, which is taking part in the US-led coalition bombing the militants in Syria and Iraq.

The group also considers Shias to be heretics.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/1137583/12-pakistanis-arrested-following-saudi-arabia-suicide-attacks/

 

[GR!FF!N]

Saudis arrest 12 Pakistanis over bombs

Saudi officials say 12 out of 19 people arrested over Monday's three bomb attacks in the country are Pakistani.

An interior ministry spokesman also named a suicide bomber who killed four security officers near a mosque in the sacred city of Medina as Naer Muslim Hamad, a 26-year-old Saudi man.

The ministry said he had a history of drug abuse.

Three people who allegedly carried out attacks in Qatif were also named. Their nationalities are not clear.

Their names were given as Abdulrahman al-Omar (23), Ibrahim al-Omar (20) and Abdulkarim al-Husni (20). The ministry said none of them had Saudi IDs.

The attacks in Qatif took place on the same day and were also suicide bombings.

A man died in Jeddah on Monday when attempting to detonate a bomb.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks yet but they are suspected to have been the work of people with allegiances to so-called Islamic State.

The group has targeted Saudi security personnel before. Some online observers pointed out that the guards had been protecting the Sunni-ruled country's Shia, who IS considers irredeemable apostates subject to punishment by death, and facilitating their access to the sacred cities Medina and Mecca.

The attacks happened at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, shocking many moderate Muslims. But after an IS spokesman called for "a month of calamity for unbelievers" there have been multiple attacks carried out by IS sympathisers across the world during Ramadan this year.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36742087

 

[litman]

it will tarnish pak's image in the muslim world and will give a good chance to modi to further deepen relations with the kingdom. economically it will hurt pak but in the longer run it is better for pak to stay poles apart from saudia. what saudia has done for pak? they have been funding the terrorism inside pak for over 3 decades now. saudia and iran are playing the most significant role in increasing the sectarian rift in the muslim world. saudia has damaged islam for the past 250 years in the name of holy sites. they have tried their best to drag pak into the their evil sectarian and oil wars in the ME. they even sent the imam Kaaba to pak when they failed to twist pak into the war diplomatically so they went for religious blackmailing which they have been doing for the past many decades in pak. there is a huge difference in defending the hoy sites and the evil saudi kingdom . pak must realize this.

 

[Indika]

Is there any wonder that Pakistan's establishment "assured" KSA of their commitment towards KSA's security ? Pakistani establishment already is worried about the repercussions. Billion dollar gifts, cheap oil, $15 Billion/year remittances, too many things at stake..

Guess what, if you observe all the countries who have aided pakistan have been at the receiving end.
US , now SA guess who's next ?

 

[JohnyD]

this is a serious blow to Pakistan's already tarnished image globally...extremism in any form is dangerous and Pakistan since its inception has nurtured its people such a way that extremism has got embedded in every Pakistanis...they started it in the name of religion first to seek independent country...then added Kashmir to it and now it has crossed all the borders and domains!

 

[jaunty]

This is not surprising. Whenever there is Islamic terrorism, there is a good chance that it will be linked to the epicenter.