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| Wanted militant's family says he wants to hand himself in | |
| 2009-09-10 | |
| The mother and sister of wanted terrorist Adnan Mohammed Ali Al-Sayigh have said that he wants to return to the Kingdom and hand himself in to the authorities. "Adnan wants to return and hand himself in, but the terrorists he's with have told him that as soon as he comes back he'll be killed," Al-Sayigh's mother told Okaz Wednesday. Al-Sayigh, who is number 55 on the Ministry of Interior's list of wanted terrorists, reportedly spoke to his wife and children last month from a mobile telephone in Yemen, the second communication he has made since entering the country at the beginning of the year along with 10 other Saudis who had returned to the Kingdom from Guantanamo detention center. Saeed Al-Shehri, the second man in Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, is widely believed to be the driving force behind the plan to group up in Yemen and announce the targeting of the Kingdom's interests from beyond the border, a move that resulted in the ministry announcing in February its list of 85 persons wanted in connection with terrorist activities. A sister of Al-Sayigh, however, has accused his wife's brother Othman Ahmed Othman Aal Ameera Al-Ghamdi of leading him to Yemen. Othman Al-Ghamdi is number 85 on the wanted list.
A few days late her son Sultan -- Adnan's nephew -- was sent a text message from a Yemeni mobile telephone telling him to go and pick up a car parked in Faifa. "I told Sultan not to go but he ignored me and went to Taif and then on to Faifa to get his uncle's car, and he was later detained in Dhahba for security reasons," Umm Sultan said. "But I'm thankful he was stopped in the Kingdom instead of being exposed to dangers in Yemen or Iraq or Afghanistan." Umm Sultan said her brother wouldn't reveal his whereabouts precisely, and that she also appealed to his conscience and told him that his wife might divorce him and remarry, leaving their two children to the care of their grandmother. "It was then that he broke into tears and asked to speak to them," she said. "And he decided he wanted to return and hand himself in. The people he was with, though, told him he would be killed as soon as he came back." Mansour Al-Turki, Ministry of Interior, speaking to Okaz newspaper, said that the "door remained open for any of those wanted in connection with security issues to return, whether they're in Yemen or anywhere else." | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Be sure to check his butt for explosives. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-09-10 12:16 |
| #1 No need to go to all the trouble. Just send us his head in a box, please. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-09-10 00:54 |