Hazel Inglis / 10/24/08 /12:31 pm / global crime
Saudi Arabia has held about 3,000 suspected militants in its intelligence detention facilities for years without charge or access to legal counsel. They freed 1,500 suspects after a re-education program in November 2007, but many more have been arrested since that group was released. Now, Saudi Arabia has laid charges against 991 suspected al-Qaeda militants, but there are no details of trial dates, specific charges or the identities of the suspects.
Since May 2003, there has been more than 30 attacks in the conservative Muslim kingdom that the al-Qaeda are thought to be behind. Ninety civilians and 74 members of the security forces had been killed, while 439 civilians and 657 members of the security forces had been injured.
It is thought that the charges made against the suspected militants are because the citizens are tired of seeing, being part of all the killing and not seeing anyone being held responsible for them. It will be interested to see how all this plays out because I would suspect that the al-Qaeda has connects within the Saudi Arabian government. I choose this story because I was tired of reading and writing about international drug trade, human trafficking, and modern day slavery and this article talks about actions that are going to take place against a small part of the huge problems within global crimes.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7681609.stm
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