A Saudi court has
jailed an Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist for 16 years for plotting to kill the
kingdom's grand mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, and
other clerics, media said Wednesday.
The sentence, which includes 40
lashes and a 16-year travel ban, was handed down on Tuesday by a court
in Riyadh specialising in terrorism cases, the local Okaz daily
reported.
According to Okaz, the jihadist
was convicted of "recruiting several people to assassinate the kingdom's
grand mufti, several clerics, important personalities and security
officials".
The official SPA news agency said
the defendant was convicted of "receiving books inciting adoption of the
deviant ideology and assassinating security officials and important
personalities" in the kingdom, without specifying that the grand mufti
was targeted.
The convicted man, who has not been named, has one month to appeal.
Saudi courts started in July 2011
to try hundreds of people believed linked to a wave of Al-Qaeda attacks
from 2003 until 2006, when authorities launched a massive campaign of
arrests targeting the jihadist network.
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