Saudi dissident leader kidnapped, says group
I NZPA-Reuter Beirut j The head of a clandestine I opposition group in Saudi Arabia has disappeared in ; Beirut and a spokesman for | the organisation has alleged that he has been abducted I by Saudi agents. i The spokesman said NasIser Said went missing last Monday. He had been staying in Beirut with officials
of a Marxist Palestinian ’ guerrilla group, the Demo-!' cratic Front for the Liber-;, ation of Palestine. i Mr Said heads a group!I known as the Union of the , Peoples of the Arab Penin- ; sula, which wants to over- ! throw the Saudi royal family ; 1 and establish a republic. Last month Mr Said ( claimed that his organisation I
was linked to the gunmen 'who seized the Grand Mosique in Mecca. The spokes|man told Reuters he be'lieved Saudi agents were responsible for Mr Said’s disappearance and warned the ! Saudi Arabian Government [not to do anything rash. There was no immediate comment on the allegations from the Saudi Embassy in Beirut.
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