Dear brothers and sisters: Security remains an essential concern for all of us. We witnessed over the past year desperate attempts by the deviant group and elements of sabotage and advocates of division to undermine the stability of your country and its unity. The answer has been by the wonderful attitudes of citizens at all levels causing happiness and assuring us on the firmness of national unity. Those attempts have been failed as a result of those attitudes and the work of the security and military state institutions, which foiled their plans. We say this and point with pride to the vigilance of the security men and their sacrifices in order to perform their mission and pray for mercy, forgiveness and paradise for those who died and applaud those who continue the vigil for the homeland's and citizens' security. On this occasion and from this platform, we assure everyone that we will not allow any threat to the national unity. Let those who have pledged themselves to external organizations or states know that they have no place among us and that they will be confronted firmly and strongly. We also reaffirm our resolve to continue the intellectual and security work to counter terrorism. We will not rest until we fortify our dear country from this danger. Dear brothers and sisters: The world has been plagued by the scourge of terror which has spread around the globe and which has damaged Muslims more than others and from which your country suffered as others suffered. We have been keen that your state be at the forefront of its fighting. At the domestic level, we confronted it through several levels including that of the legal side by approval of the terrorism crimes and finance regulation and that of efforts by scholars, preachers and intellectuals to clarify the deviation of this thought and its danger to faith and security including what has been issued by senior scholars on terrorism, its danger and its fighting, in addition to the continuing security work to counter it through proactive security moves to thwart the terrorists' plans, chase them, arrest them and bring them to justice. --More 17:26 LOCAL TIME 14:26 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w