http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1049197/posts "Terror Suspect Surrenders to Saudi Police"
AP | 12/31/03
Posted on 12/31/2003 1:44:11 AM PST by kattracks
The Associated Press
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "RIYADH, Saudi Arabia Dec. 31 — A terror suspect surrendered to Saudi police, and a Western diplomat said Islamic militants are going after the security officials who are hunting them. The Islamic militant who turned himself in, Mansour Mohammed Ahmed Faqih, is 14th on an official list of 26 wanted terror suspects. His face was among those published in a newspaper advertisement in which the government offered rewards of $270,000 for information leading to their arrests.
Faqih, 22, went into hiding shortly after his 18-year-old brother Hassan Faqih was arrested in connection with suicide attacks on May 12, biographical details in the government-guided newspapers said this month. The May 12 attacks killed 52 people,
The newspaper said Ahmed Faqih's elder brother Fahd Faqih was killed in Afghanistan in the 1990s.
The official Saudi Press Agency, which reported Tuesday's surrender, quoted an unidentified Interior Ministry official as saying "initiatives that indicate a serious desire to return to the path of righteousness will be appreciated."
Saudi authorities have detained as many as 600 people since the May 12 attacks, and urged wanted persons to surrender.
Bit increasingly, the militants are targeting the men who are hunting them, according to the diplomat.
An explosion Monday in Riyadh was aimed at a top official of the Interior Ministry's Mabahith branch, the Saudi equivalent of the FBI, the diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity,"
An explosion Monday in Riyadh was aimed at a top official of the Interior Ministry's Mabahith branch, the Saudi equivalent of the FBI, the diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity
Where is the Mabahith branch located?