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Saudi Arabia Arrested 77 Suspected Terrorists Last Month

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Saudi security forces arrested 77 terror suspects in March, according to an updated list posted on the Interior Ministry’s Nafethah Tawasol website and as reported in the Jeddah-based Saudi Gazette.

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