The Iranian regime may have supervised the Friday’s terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, Al-Watan newspaper reported citing findings on the high explosive substance RDX used in the suicide attacker’s belt.
“A possible relationship has been found with the RDX substance, which Tehran’s allies tried had smuggle to Saudi Arabia two weeks ago,” the Saudi daily said.
In response to a question on the possible relationship the Saudi Interior Ministry security spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said: “possibility exists .but we are waiting for the results of the ongoing investigations in the two cases.”
Meanwhile the Saudi Interior Ministry disclosed details of two most recent ISIS operations in the Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
According to the statement by the ministry the latest attack by the group was carried on Friday by a terrorist who blew himself up in a mosque at Al-Gudayh village in Qatif Province in the Eastern Region, killing 21 and injuring over 100 worshippers.
The second attack was carried out by a five-member cell, killing a commander of a patrol while on duty south of Riyadh 16 days ago.
The Saudi Interior Ministry’s spokesman late on Saturday identified the mosque bomber as Saleh bin Abdulrahman Al-Qash’ami, a Saudi national who was wanted for being active member of a ‘Daesh-affiliated terror cell’ since one year ago with 26 of its members, all Saudis, arrested so far.
The lab tests revealed that the material used in the explosion is RDX, the spokesman said.
The spokesman added that a five-member terror cell managed to kill the head of the facilities security department patrol and mutilate his body by setting it on fire.
The ministry spokesman said that two Kalashnikov rifles, which were used in the attack and another three rifles with 14 magazines, nine pistols, 12 relevant magazines, bayonet weapons, 230 kg of aluminum nitrate and potassium nitrate and pamphlets were confiscated from a farm in Al-Gasab province used by the terror cell as an apparatus.
Another 21 members of the terror cell, who share a number of roles to help spread the thoughts of ISIS inside the Kingdom, were arrested, the spokesman said, adding that they share making propaganda for the organization, recruit youngsters to join it, solicit money to finance operations, monitor the movements of security men, collect information about crucial sites, and provide hideouts for the wanted, among whom was the perpetrator of Friday’s mosque attack.
