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.
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