Saudi Arabia arrests 149 al-Qaeda suspects

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia arrested 149 people from 19 cells linked to al-Qaeda over the past 8 months.

The government also foiled attacks against government and security officials as well as journalists with the arrests, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.

It said in a statement it confiscated 2.24 million riyals ($597,237) from al-Qaeda when it tried to collect money and spread its ideology during the Muslim pilgrimages of Haj and Umra in Saudi Arabia.