RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia issued a list of 36 men wanted for acts of terror Tuesday and called on people to report them to the police. Saudi Arabia has suffered a series of terror attacks since May 2003, when suicide bombers attacked three housing estates for foreigners in the capital Riyadh. The kingdom is the birthplace of the leader of the al-Qaida terror network, Osama bin Laden, and 16 of the 19 hijackers involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
The Interior Ministry also offered rewards of $267,000 for information leading to the arrest a suspect, $1.3 million if more than one suspect is arrested, and $1.8 million if a terror act is foiled as a result of the information, the official Saudi Press Agency said. The ministry said 15 of the 36 were believed to be in the kingdom, while the whereabouts of the others were unknown. It urged the suspects to surrender and warned people against helping them, saying they could be charged with terrorism.
Twenty-nine of the men on the list are Saudis; three are from Chad. The other four are a Moroccan, a Kuwaiti, a Yemeni and a Mauritanian. The kingdom issued a first list of 26 most wanted terror suspects in December 2003. Most have been captured or killed. Or so they say. |