From Financial Times:A Saudi court began formal legal proceedings on Monday against about 70 militant suspects ahead of the first trials of al-Qaeda sympathisers who waged a campaign of violence in the US-allied monarchy.
Security was tight around Riyadh’s general court where 10 judges began viewing the case against the men prepared by prosecutors. It was not clear when the trial would begin.
”All the people involved are implementers, inciters and supporters,” al-Riyadh newspaper said, adding they may include men who fought in Afghanistan, Iraq and militants extradited to Saudi Arabia recently from other countries.
Iraq handed over eight Saudi prisoners last month.
”Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula” began a campaign to destabilise the US-allied Saudi government in 2003 with two suicide bomb attacks on foreign housing compounds in Riyadh.
Around 264 people died in the violence.
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Update: 991 Suspected Militants Indicted in Saudi Arabia -- FOX News
My Comment: 5 years later .... and the trials are starting now. Everyone is certainly taking their time.
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