Forty Saudis Held For Base Bombing

Saudi Arabian security officials are holding about 40 Saudi citizens whom they have concluded were involved in the truck bombing of a U.S. military housing complex in Dhahran in June, and have traced the attack to a broad conspiracy that the Saudis are convinced was backed by the government of Iran.

The suspects, who have been secretly imprisoned for at least three months, include the man who Saudi officials say drove the explosives-laden vehicle that was detonated just beyond the complex’s fence and killed 19 U.S. Air Force service members, according to sources.

These sources, who are familiar with the Saudi portion of the intensive probe of the Khobar Towers bombing, said this week that the internal Saudi inquiry is now complete and that what remains of the Saudi investigation is being conducted outside the kingdom.