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The authorities in Saudi Arabia say they have arrested more than 170 terrorism suspects some of whom have been training as pilots for suicide missions. The Saudi Interior Ministry said suspects, some of them foreign nationals, have been planning to attack oil instillations, public figures and military bases inside and outside the country. Here is our defense and security correspondent Robertson.
The scale of the arrest has caused some surprise in the kingdom. It’s now been more than a year since the last major attack in Saudi Arabia when Al-Qaeda unsuccessfully targeted an oil processing plant. Al-Qaeda Saudi born leader Osama Bin Laden has long boasted of his desire to attack the country’s oil industry as a way of toppling its monarchy and hurting its oil first in western allies. These latest arrest suggests Al-Qaeda though weakened by a four-year-security crackdown, is still a force to be reckoned with there.

The US military authorities say they are holding a senior Al-Qaeda operative who was arrested as he was trying to return to his native country Iraq. They say they transfer the man A. to the Guantanamo detention camp in Cuba this week. C. explains the significance of the arrest.
What we already had Osama Bin Laden, but he is relatively isolated as he tries to avoid being caught and it’s figures like A. operational commander is actually involved in planning attacks including against western target. Now, western British counterterrorism officials told me that they rank him No.3 or 4 in Al-Qaeda back senior. It seems he was arrested month ago, and held secretly by the CIA while he was interrogated, and he may as well have some quite sensitive information about Al-Qaeda’s plans, but of course like other figures he is replaceable.

The UN Security Council has voted to lift the ban on the export of diamond from Liberia. The ban imposed in 2001 was used to prevent money from diamond sales fueling wars in Liberia and its neighbors. The UN said the Liberia must now sign up to the Kimberley Process which certifies that exported diamonds have not originated in conflict zones. The British Ambassador to the UN A. P. said the right conditions have now been established in Liberia. “That recognition of progress made in Liberia, the fact of these conditions proposed in the K. process are being met. Now our expectation is that Liberia would now move forward, and fully join in the Kimberley Process.”

The head of the African Union / has appealed for more peacekeepers to be sent to Somalia as a matter of urgency. Mr. / said if extra troops were not deployed soon, it would be a disaster. Residents of the Somalia capital Mogadishu have been clearing bodies from the streets after fighting between Ethiopian troops and clan militiamen supported by Islamist militiamen.

World News from the BBC.

Police in the Esthonian capital / have used tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets to try to disperse hundreds of ethnic Russians protesting against the remove of a Soviet War memorial. The demonstrators threw petrol-bomb and stones, at least five people are thought to been injured. In earlier clashes, one man died. Russian has recalled some ambassador from Esthonia and parliament Moscow has urged that all relations be cut.

The Turkish army has stepped into the riot by the presidential election by expressing concerns over the situation. At a statement from the general staff said the military was the defender of the Turkey secular system of government and would as the statement put it openly display its position when necessary. In the parliamentary vote for a new president, the governing party’s candidate, the foreign minister Abdula /, got ten fewer votes than he needed to win outright. Reporting from A., S.
Opposition parties here are doing everything in their powers to prevent A. becoming president. They insist that would represent a threat to the strictly secular regime here. The governing party is the most popular in Turkey when many people are more conservative than here in capital. But Abdula / started his political life in a pro-Islamic party that since being banned. He has insisted he has no intention of bringing religion into politics.

Reports from northern Nigeria say a lesbian who said she had married four women a week ago has gone into hiding after religious police went to arrest them. The wedding ceremony which is not recognized under Islamic Shari law was held in a local cinema in the city of C.

The captain of a fishing vassal which sank off the coast of the Dominick Republic more than three days ago has washed up on the shore of H. island. The captain was suffering from exposure, dehydration and bruising. Around Thirty five people were on board the ship when it went down on Tuesday. Over half the crew are still missing.

BBC World News.