Security authorities have arrested three Saudis and two expatriates for spreading false propaganda through the Internet, the Ministry of Interior announced on Wednesday. The five were misleading young people, manipulating their religious sentiments and instigating them to create trouble, an official source at the ministry said. Using pseudonyms to suggest they have supporters, the five accused would thus lure people to communicate with them as a first step towards recruitment for “vicious and wicked goals,” the source said. “Despite the difficulty of laying such traps, our security men are highly capable and qualified to track down and arrest such deviants who spread wrong ideas wherever they are,” Interior Ministry spokesman Major Gen. Mansour Al-Turki told Saudi Gazette. “These deviant mentalities use modern technology like the Internet to spread to mislead surfers and spread their deviant methodology,” he said without revealing where the five accused were arrested. “It doesn't matter which cities they are from. What matters is their deviant thinking,” he said. Computers and documents seized from the five revealed the following sets of pseudonyms each one used: • Prince of Slaughters • The struggling lion • Eagle of battalions • I am Ansari • Abu Al-Islam • Hazem • Jawal • Al-Gassam Falcon • Falcon 9 • Al-Hesam (“The Sword”) • Hezbr Al-Islam (“The Lion of Islam”) • Abu Alwaleed • Abu Abdul Aziz • Mawsoat Al-Jihad (“Encyclopedia of Jihad” • Hesam Al-Iz (“The Sword of Pride”) • Abdullah Al-Ghamdi • Rabae Bin Amer • Sanam Al-Falouga (“The Ham Of Al-Falouga”) • Abdullah Saif • Al-Monasih (“Preacher”) • Guest in Hatim's House • Chechen Mujahid • Caucasian Mujahid • Abu Dijana Al-Shami • Rabi'a Al-Muhajir • Omar Al-Selami • Abu Hamza • Abu Abdulrahman The Ministry cautioned the public about advocates of “deviant thoughts, their tricky methods and malicious intentions to mislead the sons of the soil and turn them into tools in the hands of their enemies who are conspiring against their country on which Almighty Allah has bestowed the honor of serving the Two Holy Harams.” The statement warned against falling victim “to these deviants who use deceptive and misrepresentative methods in promoting their evil thoughts.” __
