Saudi list of most wanted suspected terrorists
Periodically Saudi Arabia publishes a most wanted list.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] According to Asharq Alawsat Saudi Arabia has published four lists of "most wanted" suspected terrorists, and those lists contained 19, 26, 36 and 85 individuals.[1]
The list of 85 most wanted suspected terrorists published in February 2009 named eleven former Guantanamo captives.[11]
Contents
Earlier lists
The BBC News reported in July 2003 that a Saudi named "Ali Abdu Rahman Al Ghamdi" was number two on a Saudi most wanted list until he had peacefully surrendered in 2003.[12]
List of December 6, 2003
A list published on December 5, 2003 contained twenty-six names.[4] When a new list was published in February 2009 Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported that all but one of the captives had been killed or captured.[13]
List of June 28, 2005
The list of June 28, 2005 contained thirty-six names.[4][5][6] The Saudi government encouraged those named on the list to surrender, and promised lenient treatment. By April 7, 2007 the Saudi government reported that twenty-three of those individuals had been killed or captured.
List of February 3, 2009
The most recently published list was published on February 3, 2009.[10][13][16][17] It listed 85 individuals, 83 of whom were Saudis, and two were from Yemen. Carol Rosenberg, reporting in the Miami Herald, wrote that six of the men on the new most wanted list were former Guantanamo captives. Robert Worth, reporting in the New York Times, wrote that fourteen Saudis, formerly held in Guantanamo, had fallen under suspicion of supporting terrorism following their release.[18] The men were all believed to be living outside of Saudi Arabia, some of them receiving militant training. They were promised lenient treatment, and encouraged to turn themselves in at the nearest Saudi embassy.
Those on the new list include three Saudis who appeared in a threatening al Qaeda video[18]: Said Ali al-Shihri, Abu Hareth Muhammad al-Awfi and Nasir al-Wuhayshi, and another individual named Abdullah al-Qarawi. Al-Wuhayshi claims he is the leader of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Al-Qarawi is reported to be the leader of Al-Qaida in the Persian Gulf. Al-Shihri and Al-Awfi are former Guantanamo captives, and Al-Shihri stated he is Al-Wuyashi's deputy.
The Saudi Gazette reported that Saudi security officials identified an individual named Saleh Al-Qaraawi as the leader of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia.[10]
An article published in Asharq Alawsat on February 6, 2009, noted the range in age among the suspects—from seventeen to fifty-two.[19] This article named Abdullah El Qarawi, who it described as the "most dangerous" individual on the list, as the leader of Al Qaeda operations in the Persian Gulf. According to the article Abdullah El Qarawi is just 26 years old, and most of the individuals on the list are between 25 and 25. The article listed the names and ages of fifteen other individuals.
Another article in the Asharq Alawsat identified other individual from the list, including: Abdullah al-Abaed -- wanted for the assassination of a senior police official, and Mohamed Abul-Khair, one of Osama bin Laden's bodyguards, and one of his sons-in-law.[20]
On February 7, 2009 the Saudi Gazette reported some details of some of the wanted men.[11] The article named seven men it identified as former Guantanamo captives, and five other most wanted suspected terrorists it did not identify as former Guantanamo captives.
isn | rank | age | names | notes |
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71 | 27 | Meshal Mohammed Rashid Al-Shedoky |
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105 | 31 | Adnan Al-Sayegh[11] |
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114 | 23 | Yousuf Mohammed Mubarak Al Jubairi Al Shahri |
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177 | Fahd Saleh Suleiman al-Jutayli | |||
184 | 35 | Othman Al-Ghamdi[11] |
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185 | 31 | Turki Mashawi Al Aseery[19] |
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187 | 32 | Murtadi Muqrim[11] |
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188 | 34 | Jaber Jabran[19] |
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192 | 29 | Ibrahim Sulaiman Mohammed Ar-Rabeish |
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333 | 35 | Abu Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi |
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372 | 35 | Sa'id Ali Jabir Al Khathim Al Shihri |
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Nasir al-Wuhayshi |
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34 | Mohammed Aboul-Kheir |
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16 or 17 | Abdullah Al Jebairi Al Shahri |
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20 | Baheij Al-Buheajy[19] | |||
29 | 20 | Rayed Abdullah Salem Al Harbi | ||
21 | Naif Mohamed Al Qahtani[19] | |||
21 | Hamd Hussein Nasser Al Hussein[19] | |||
22 | Hassan Ibrahim Hamd Al Shaban[19] | |||
23 | Abdullah Hassan Al Aseery |
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26 | Abdullah El Qarawi |
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27 | Saleh Al-Qaraawi |
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31 | Ahmed Abdullah Al Zahrani[19] | |||
37 | Khalid Ibrahim Al Aseery[19] | |||
15 | 38 | Badr Al Oufi Al Harbi[19][35] | ||
43 | 39 | Abdullah Abdul-Rahman Al Harbi[19][35] | ||
52 | Hussein Abdu Mohamed[19] | |||
Abdulmohsin Al-Sharikh |
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Abdullah Al-Juwair |
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6 | Ahmad Al-Shiha |
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31 | Aqil Al-Mutairi |
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60 | 27 | Faiz Al-Harbi |
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Qassem al-Reemi |
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Obaida Abdul-Rahman Al Otaibi |
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32 | Sultan Radi al-Otaibi | |||
47 | Abdullah Mohammed Abdullah al-Ayad |
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Ahmed Owaidan Al-Harbi |
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73 | Mohammed Otaik Owaid Al-Aufi Al-Harbi[35] | |||
26 | Khaled Saleem Owaid Al-Luhaibi Al-Harbi[35] | |||
34 | Abdullah Thabet |
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61 | 31 | Fahd Raggad Samir Al-Ruwaili |
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Suspects who surrendered
According to the Agence France Presse the SPA News Agency reported on May 23, 2009 that three three Saudis suspected of ties to Al Qaidi returned to Saudi Arabia and turned themselves in to authorities.[43] The Arab News reported the identities of the three men were not made public, but that they had not been listed on the February 2009 most-wanted list.[44] The Saudi Gazette reported that only two of the men voluntarily surrendeded and that the third man was captured in Yemen.[45]
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