[Al Arabiya] A Saudi bad turban on an Interpol wanted list surrendered to security authorities after asking to be sent home from Pakistain, the interior ministry said Tuesday.Bader Mohammed Nasser al-Shehri, one of 85 men on a Saudi list of alleged Islamic gunnies sent to Interpol in February 2009, contacted the authorities from Pakistain via his family, asking to return home, the ministry said in a statement on the official SPA news agency. The ministry statement did not say what Shehri, 32, was doing in Pakistain.
Dodging missiles would be my guess...
Ministry front man General Mansour al-Turki said he is suspected of working with al-Qaeda.
Golly. Gosh. Y'think?
"He contacted his family asking for help to return," Turki told AFP.
"Hi, Mom! I'm in Lakki Marwat. Can you wire me bus fare?"
"We will find out now where he was and what he was doing."
"Surely it was all innocent. He was probably teaching the Koran to the locals."
Shehri's return reduced the number of outstanding bandidos on the list to 71, according to Turki. Six have turned themselves in, six have been killed, and two were jugged.
It was the second announcement in a week of one of the desperados giving themselves up to Saudi Arabia.
On Friday the interior ministry said Jaber Jabran al-Faifi, an former Guantanamo detainee who rejoined al-Qaeda in Yemen after graduating from Saudi Arabia's rehabilitation program, turned himself in through Yemen's authorities.
No telling what organization he's gonna join when he'd done with his rehab this time. It probably won't be the Lions or Rotary, though.
Turki said he did not know if there was a link between the return of either of the two men and a warning the Saudis passed on to European intelligence agencies recently about an al-Qaeda threat to Europe and France in particular.