CAIRO, June 7 (IslamOnline.net) - Saudi authorities have drawn a six-point plan at security and intellectual levels to eradicate what they see as "terrorism" responsible for a surge of attacks against foreign interests in the Kingdom, but a number of gaps are still there, the Interior Ministry spokesman told IslamOnline.net.

The measures include "securing borders used by terrorists and their collaborators in smuggling weapons to the kingdom," Mosaybeh said over the phone.

"Drying up sources used to channel funds to these groups, especially across charities.

"Raising awareness of mosque imams and ending their apologetic speeches showing sympathy with the militants.

"Activating cooperation with other countries with an experience of combating terrorism, such as Egypt.

"Declaring the government's willingness to deal with those laying down their weapons, and taking this into account during their potential trial.

"Exploiting the internet for fighting the ideas propagated by these groups," the Saudi official said.

Mosaybeh added that Saudi police have made a "remarkable" success at recent times, citing detonating dozens of booby-trapped cars in key areas in the country.

"They also found hideouts of terrorists and arrested many of them after bloody clashes that left a number of their leaders dead".

The Saudi official admitted that there are still "points" of weakness", namely the misuse of charities paid by "kind citizens" for their operations.

"The terrorists got these funds through forged papers we've found in their hideouts."

"A legal framework for charities was taken to prevent such incidents stand a repeat," he said, noting the public awareness campaign in this regard is beginning to pay off.

Mosaybeh affirmed that the government will have no dialogue with those "taking up arms, killing civilians and inflicting damage.

"They can misuse such a dialogue for justifying their criminal acts."

Analysts and observers said that the rising official corruption, bareness of political life and the absence of a supposedly pioneering role by the kingdom in the Islamic world acted as a "breeding ground" for such elements.

"If the government begins addressing such internal issues, such as poverty and unemployment in such a wealthy country (with the world's largest oil reserves) and restoring a role of serving Islamic causes, the situation could swerve back to normal," a Saudi analyst told IOL, on condition of anonymity.

He declined to attribute external reasons for the eruption of the attacks against government and foreign targets in the country, saying the problem "rather comes from within".

Six Westerners - two Americans, two Britons, an Australian and a Canadian - were killed when gunmen went on a shooting spree at a petrochemical plant in the Red Sea industrial port of Yanbu on May 1.