-from wbir.com-

Saudi officials say a terror plot they’ve broken up was on the verge of being carried out.

Saudi police say they’ve arrested 172 Islamic militants in an alleged plot to carry out suicide attacks against “public figures, oil facilities” and “military zones.”

An Interior Ministry spokesman tells The Associated Press that the planning was nearly complete, except for setting the “zero hour” for the attacks. The official says “they had the personnel, the money, the arms.”

The ministry says some of the detainees had been sent to other countries to train as pilots to attack Saudi oil fields.

It says the militants also planned to storm Saudi prisons to free inmates.

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