RIYADH, August 14 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Warning there was no place for neutrals, Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah said Thursday, August 14, Saudi nationals must each be the eye, ear and hand of the security forces in the "decisive battle" against terrorists in the kingdom.

"During these days, our noble Saudi people are faced with a decisive battle against the power of evil and destruction which is represented in the tyrant and misguided group of terrorists," Prince Abdullah said, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

"Without your sacrifices, the tyrant group would not have succumbed to their defeats," the prince said in a speech in which he hailed Saudi security forces, which have incurred mounting losses in the battle against “suspected militants”.

"In the conflict between the power of rights and the power of evils, there is no place for neutrals, there is no room for the hesitant, but there is only one path before the honorable believers which is to stand in one line against the corrupt oppressors in the holiest place on earth - Mecca and Medina.

"I am calling on every citizen to remain as a security man, to be a support to the security man, and to be an eye, ear and hand for the security man," he said.

Prince Abdullah warned: "Whoever harbors a terrorist is a terrorist like him. Whoever sympathizes with a terrorist is a terrorist like him and those who harbor and sympathize with terrorism will receive their just and deterrent punishment."

Saudi Arabia has launched a major crackdown on “presumed al-Qaeda militants” in the kingdom, notably after the May 12 triple bombings of residential compounds in Riyadh that left 35 people dead.

The latest sweep took to more than 150 the number of alleged militants detained for suspected links with terrorism in the aftermath of the Riyadh bombings.

This is in addition to more than 300 arrests of terror suspects following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States blamed on Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born alleged leader who was stripped of his Saudi citizenship nearly a decade ago.

A number of “extremists”, including top suspect Turky al-Dandani, have also been killed in clashes with police.

The intense hunt for militants raising an Islamic banner comes as Riyadh faces renewed accusations from the United States, its longtime ally, of involvement in the 9/11 attacks.

The latest slur came last month in a U.S. congressional report, 28 pages of which have been classified by President George W. Bush for reasons of national security.

The part of the report which was published referred to Saudi student Omar al-Bayumi, suspected of having links with two of the 19 hijackers who carried out the September 11 attacks.