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Mastermind in Saudi blasts surrenders

JEDDAH (Saudi Arabia) June 27. Saudi authorities will keep tightening the noose around militants at large in the kingdom following the surrender of the suspected mastermind of last month's Riyadh suicide bombings, officials and newspapers said on Friday.

An Interior Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Thursday's surrender of Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi al-Ghamdi to Saudi authorities was a result of the crackdown launched following the May 12 bombings that killed 34 people and the June 14 raid on a terror cell that was allegedly planning attacks in Mecca, Islam's holiest city.

``The noose was tightened. There are checkpoints everywhere, arrests of suspects on a regular basis. He (al-Ghamdi) had very little choice,'' said the official. The official said al-Ghamdi turned himself into police in Jeddah on the condition that Deputy Interior Minister, Prince Nayef bin Mohammed, was personally involved in the surrender.

The Saudi Okaz newspaper quoted the Deputy Minister's father, Interior Minister, Prince Nayef, as saying al-Ghamdi surrendered at his son's home following dawn prayers. — AP

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