Next door is Simops, or simultaneous operations, which choreographs the complex dance of drill ships, drill rigs and service vessels that crowd the sea above the leaking well.

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The arrests were made in "co-ordinated and simultaneous operations in four regions of the kingdom, " including the capital Riyadh and the holy city of Mecca, the ministry was quoted as saying in a separate statement.

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This stood for defending the homeland, deterring hostilities in four areas of the world, defeating two adversaries in nearly simultaneous combat operations, and being able to decisively defeat one of those two adversaries.

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What investigators have found, apart from a certain similarity between the two operations (both involved several simultaneous explosions), are some personal contacts between suspects in the two countries.

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Now they have been working with the Americans, sometimes in joint operations, sometimes in separate but simultaneous ones.

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