In London, the prime minister's spokesman said Downing Street had been

notified

of the likely content but

declined to

give details. A State Department spokesman warned that the release would prove harmful to US interests and create tension in its relations with other governments.

Saudi Arabia says it's arrested about 150 people this year, most of them Saudi citizens, suspected of working for al-Qaeda. It said the men had planned to attack security officials and journalists. A Saudi official said the suspects belonged to cells with links to al-Qaeda in Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan. About $600,000 are said to have been recovered from the men after their arrests.

The campaign group, Human Rights Watch, has accused the Moroccan authorities of beating and abusing people detained after a raid by its forces in the disputed Western Sahara. It

called for

an immediate end to the reported

mistreatment

of up to 100 Sahrawis still being held following the raid on a protest camp. An eyewitness, Leila Leili, told what she had seen.

"I was there on 8 November just before dawn when everyone was still sleeping. Bulldozers and trucks started to

besiege

the camp. They were from the Moroccan army. Bulldozers started to invade the camp and

demolish

tents without giving the people sleeping inside them a chance to get out. After that, we heard sounds of big bangs - artillery, bullets, tear gas. Everyone was fleeing in all directions."