Prince Khalid bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Assistant Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General for Military affairs, paid a visit today to his brothers and colleagues, the soldiers of the Armed Forces taking positions along southern boundaries. During the visit, Prince Khalid conveyed greetings and gratitude of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Premier, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General, who wish the soldiers all success. Prince Khalid reiterated the vows declared by King Abdullah that the Saudis would never intervene in other"s internal matters, however, they would not allow anyone to commit aggression on the least part of their soils. On the number of infiltrators, Prince Khalid bin Sultan said that in the past they used to come in large numbers; a hundred or two hundred they became much lower in the few past weeks except during the last 48 hours where they gathered trying to get through Al-Gabri but they were eliminated and destroyed completely, stressing that "all our goals were achieved". On the decline of fighting on the tape of borders, Prince Khalid added that this happened thanks to Allah Almighty and the control of our armed forces which will continue its presence when there is an just one intruder. On the special arrangements of the citizens of Al-Khuba province and the possibility of returning to their homes, Prince Khalid bin Sultan affirmed that the most important thing is to preserve their lives and providing security for them, pointing that the border"s tape would not be safer for them, and for this reason the work in the project ordered by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to establish "10" thousands of housing units for them was kicked off, pointing to a committee chaired by Second Deputy Premier and Minister of the Interior to resolve this problem once and all. As for the final statistics of the number of dead and wounded in the events, Prince Khalid said that " I promised full transparency and I told you in the past that there are "73" martyrs and "26" missing and now the number of missing is " 21" only after "05" bodies were found after clearing the area of Mountain of Rmeih, explaining that by finding these five bodies in addition to another "4" martyrs killed in the last two weeks, the total number of the martyrs reached to "82", while the wounded reached to 39 after they were 60.
