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- ↑ "Interior Ministry publishes names of 26 wanted terrorist suspects". Saudi Government. 2003-12-06. Archived from the original on 2010-06-19.
- ↑ "Update on Saudi Arabia's progress in the War on Terrorism". Saudi Government. 2005-06-02. Archived from the original on 2009-09-09.
On April 23, 2004, the Ministry of Interior identified four of the five terror suspects killed on April 22 as Ahmad Abdulrahman Saqr Alfadhli, Khalid Mobarak Habeeb-Allah Alqurashi, Mostafa Ibrahim Mohammad Mobaraki, and Talal A'nbar Ahmad A'nbari, numbers 23, 11, 25, and 13 on the most wanted list published on December 6, 2003. They were killed following a shootout with security forces in the Al-Safa neighborhood in Jeddah.
- ↑ P.K. Abdul Ghafour (2004-04-25). "King Blasts Terrorists for Using Islam as Cover". Arab News. Archived from the original on 2009-02-17.
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