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The Saudi citizen pictured conversing with Osama bin Laden about the September 11 terrorist attacks in a videotape released last week is a former Mujahedeen and war compatriot of bin Laden, not the man initially identified by U.S. officials, senior Saudi officials told CNN on Sunday. Saudi officials said the man on the tape is Khaled al-Harbi, who fought with bin Laden against the Russians in Afghanistan about 20 years ago. On Friday, one day after the Pentagon released the videotape, U.S. officials said the man visiting bin Laden was Ali Sayeed al-Ghamdy, a former Islamic theology professor once imprisoned...

Jul 13, 12:45 PM (ET) By Sami Aboudi RIYADH (Reuters) - A suspected Saudi al Qaeda militant, who had appeared in a videotape with Osama bin Laden, was flown back to the kingdom from Iran after he surrendered under a government amnesty, state television said on Tuesday. It said Khaled al-Harbi, also known as Abu Suleiman al-Makki, had been on the Iranian-Afghan border and had contacted Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran in response to the amnesty. Television showed a wheelchair-bound and bearded Harbi being carried off a plane on arrival in the kingdom with his family. It did not say...

BREAKING NEWS Close associate of Osama bin Laden, Khaled al-Harbi, surrenders to Saudi security officials in Tehran, Saudi official says. Details soon.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Officials have identified the two bombers in a suicide attack that killed 17 people at a Riyadh housing compound, the official Saudi Press Agency reported Monday. The agency, quoting an unnamed Interior Ministry official, said DNA tests confirmed that Ali bin Hamid Elmabady Alharbi and Nasser bin Abdullah bin Nasser Alsiary attacked the housing complex of mostly Arab and Muslim residents, injuring 120 people. The agency said the two men, both of them Saudis, had been wanted by Saudi authorities in other security-related cases. It did not elaborate. The official was also quoted as saying that...