LEITH: A Passports Department crackdown in Thuwwal north of Jeddah Friday resulted in the arrest of ten people in violation of residency laws, some of them accused of forging residency and identification documents. Muhammad Al-Husseini, spokesman for the Passports Department in Makkah, said some of the arrested had been working as construction laborers on daily pay. In Al-Leith the same day, checkpoint officers arrested an Arab bus driver illegally providing transport for 74 Bangladeshis in breach of residency laws. Only five hours earlier, a Saudi driver was arrested with four Arabs in the Kingdom illegally as they passed through the same checkpoint wearing women's clothes.
