A terrorist plot to attack the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia has been thwarted and scores of people with ties to ISIS have been arrested in recent months, Saudi authorities said Tuesday. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said Tuesday that among those arrested were 65 people the Saudis say were involved in a plan targeting residential compounds, prisons and security forces. Authorities also disrupted a plot for a suicide car bomber to attack the U.S. Embassy after they got more information about it in mid-March, he said. U.S. officials have already halted all consular services at the embassy, along with two other diplomatic missions in the country, over security fears.
