Saudis find arms cache linked to Qaeda

Saudi authorities announced Sunday a list of 47 people wanted for suspected links to Al-Qaeda who are all abroad, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA."Authorities have identified 47 wanted Saudis who are abroad and who adopt the deviant ideology," the ministry said, using the kingdom's term for the Al-Qaeda terror network.Saudi militants linked to Al-Qaeda launched a wave of attacks against Westerners and government installations between 2003 and 2006 before coming under a severe crackdown by the authorities.

An alleged Al-Qaeda member, one of 47 on an Interpol wanted list, has turned himself in to Saudi authorities, the kingdom's interior ministry said on Wednesday.Khaled Hazal al-Qahtani had "contacted (Saudi) security services asking them to help him return home and surrender," ministry spokesman General Mansur al-Turki said in comments carried by state-run news agency SPA."His return was arranged and he was reunited with his family upon his arrival," the spokesman said in the statement which gave no details on Qahtani's whereabouts before he surrendered.

President Obama's heartfelt State of the Union plea for stronger gun control was still fresh in mind when I received these pictures from a reader. The photos show an arsenal of weapons the reader just legally bought including a Russian made Saiga-12 shotgun, an AR-15 assault rifle, a huge cache of ammo, and several accessories.

Russia's 64 year-old beauty, the Kalashnikov AK series assault rifle, may soon get a new addition: the AK-12. Come this June, Russian feds will decide the fate of the AK-12 — in development since 2010 and in testing since 2011 — when they do the final test runs of the weapons system.

Palestinian schoolboys are learning how to fire Kalashnikovs, throw grenades and plant improvised explosive devices as part of a program run by Hamas’s education ministry. The scheme has been criticized by Palestinian human rights groups, who point out that Hamas has previously banned sport from the school curriculum on the grounds that there is not enough time.

Another day, another terrorist attack, this time in Canada, where the mounted police announced they have made arrests relating a "terror plot" planning to attack a New York to Toronto passenger train. And just to keep it really real, the name Al-Qaeda was released a few times. Supposedly this is not the same Al-Qaeda that is linked to the Syrian opposition, which these days is one of America's best friends in the region against Hassad's "evil" regime and so on.

The feverish demand for military-style rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines is outstripping supply, ahead of legislative efforts to ban them in the wake of mass shootings.

After the tragic shooting in Newtown, Conn., Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., promised to introduce a ban on the type of semiautomatic weapons frequently used in mass murders.