PLOT AGAINST KING SAUD

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28269, 6 May 1957, Page 9

PLOT AGAINST KING SAUD

Terrorists Arrested (New Zealand Press Association) (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 4. Several armed terrorists were arrested in tie Saudi Arabian capital last month for plotting under Egypt’s direction to kill King Saud, the “New York Times” said in a dispatch from Beirut today. The dispatch quoted “reliable sources with Saudi connexions,” as saying that armed terrorists cells were discovered in Riyadh, Kind Saud’s capital, and had been arrested by security police on April 21. The dispatch said that most of the alleged terrorists were former Palestinians, but some were Saudi Arabian. Security police had captured automatic weapons, grenades, and explosives in the raids they made on the terrorists. An account of the arrests was given in part on Thursday arid Friday by the Lebanese press, but the reports had simply said that “assassinations” were being planned. The dispatch said that wholesale deportations of Egyptians and former Palestinians had been going on since the raids. The King apparently preferred that action to prosecutions that would embitter relations among the Arab countries. The King expelled the Egyptian Military Attache, Colonel Ali Kashabeh, and a band of men he employed, said Beirut newspapers, quoted by correspondents of the London “Daily Mail” and “Daily Telegraph* at The Beirut newspapers said tlrat this was the -real reason behind the flying visit to King Saud last week of President Kuwatly, of Syria. Colonel Nasser of Egypt was said to have made an urgent telephone request that President Kuwatly should intercede with King Saud, who was in a violent state of anger and indignation. Colonel Nasser asked President Kuwatly first to visit Cairo and then to take an Egyptian deputation with him to Jeddah to mollify the King and assure him that Nasser himself had no knowledge of the plot.