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The Saudi captured in Iraq, who confessed to being part of the Feb. 24 Abqaiq refinery attack, is deemed mentally ill and not wanted by Saudi authorities, the Interior Ministry announced yesterday. The Kingdom has requested the Iraqi authorities to provide Abdulrahman Musleh Al-Harbi with proper medical treatment, according to an Interior Ministry statement. A source at the ministry told Arab News that a background check on the suspect showed him to have a history of mental illness. “It has been proven that he suffers from mental illnesses and he is not wanted by Saudi authorities,” said the source, adding that the authorities had requested that the suspect be repatriated in accordance with international law.
IraqÂ’s border guards said yesterday that a Saudi militant suspected of taking part in the attack on the Saudi oil facility was captured Tuesday moments after he crossed the border into IraqÂ’s southern deserts. The suspect initially identified himself incorrectly as Abdullah Salah Al-Harbi. Al-Harbi told Iraqi interrogators that he and eight people from his country were involved in last monthÂ’s suicide attack, according to Saadoun Al-Jabiri, a spokesman for the Iraqi border guard.
The suspect gave the names of eight men, saying five of them fled into Iraq while three were still in Saudi Arabia, the spokesman said. Al-Harbi also claimed that one of the three he named was wounded in a clash with Saudi security forces shortly after the suicide attack. Iraqi forces were still combing the areas to find the five men Al-Harbi named. The Saudi identified the eight men that Al-Harbi named as: Nasser Fahd Al-Miteiri, Nafeh Al-Ajami, Faisal Khaled Al-Miteiri, Fares Mohammed Al-Oteibi, Mutaab Sanad Al-Harbi, Fahd Abdullah Al-Khalidi, Khaled Al-Ajami and Midhyal Al-Oteibi.
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Al-Harbi told interrogators on Thursday that he was headed to the predominantly Sunni northern Iraqi city of Mosul where he planned to meet cattle merchants who have links with Al-Qaeda, the spokesman said. Al-Harbi said he worked as a sheep merchant in Saudi Arabia and that they planned for the attack in Abqaiq “for some time,” the spokesman said, adding that Al-Harbi claimed to be fleeing to the southern Iraqi city of Samawah. Al-Harbi said he came to Iraq to fight the Americans rather than Iraqis, adding that he was supposed to get weapons in Mosul.| He also said he was the Keymaster, and asked to be taken to the Gatekeeper. |
Al-Harbi told Iraqi border guards that his leader was Faisal Khaled Al-Miteiri, who, he claimed, was wounded in the shoulder during the clash with Saudi security forces during the attack. |