Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz said in comments published on Monday that terrorism remains a threat for the Sunni Gulf kingdom and accused Shiite Iran of targeting it.
Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz said in comments
published on Monday that terrorism remains a threat for the
Sunni
Gulf
kingdom and accused Shiite Iran of targeting it.
"We will continue to be a target for terrorists, who will continue
attempting to attack us, supported by other parties," Al-Eqtissadiya
newspaper quoted Prince Nayef as saying.
"Evil surrounds us from all sides," he said, citing unrest in
neighboring
Iraq
and
Yemen
, as
well as "
Iran
and
its targeting of the kingdom." He didn't elaborate.
Saudi Arabia
witnessed a wave of deadly attacks by Al-Qaeda between 2003 and 2006, which
prompted a security force crackdown on the local branch of the jihadist network
founded by Saudi-born Osama bin Laden.
Al-Qaeda remains very active in neighboring
Yemen
,
where the Saudi and Yemeni franchises of al-Qaeda joined forces under the
banner of al-Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula
.
A suicide bomber from the group blew himself up in August 2009 in an abortive
attempt on the life of Prince Nayef's son, Prince Mohammed, who leads the
campaign against Islamist militants in the kingdom.
Tensions between
Iran
and
Saudi
Arabia
rose sharply in March when
Saudi troops intervened in
Bahrain
to
help the Gulf kingdom's Sunni ruling family suppress month-long protests led by
its Shiite majority community, triggering angry protests from
Tehran
.
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