14 Saudis Are Released From Guantanamo Bay
Samir Al-Saadi, Arab NewsJEDDAH, 25 June 2006 — Fourteen Saudi nationals in US custody at the Guantanamo Bay prison are on their way home, the Pentagon said yesterday.
Meanwhile, back in the Kingdom, the investigation following a raid on a suspected terrorist cell in Riyadh on Friday led to the arrest of two suspects in the nation’s capital yesterday, according to the Interior Ministry’s spokesman.
The repatriation of the 14 Saudis increases the number of repatriated Gitmo detainees to the Kingdom to 29 this year, not counting the two who returned dead after allegedly committing suicide earlier this month.
This Arab News article also identifies the six “deviants” killed in the Riyadh shootout a couple of days ago:
The six were identified as: Mohammed ibn Rashed Al-Jalidan, Sami ibn Saud Al-Mutari, Mishal ibn Abdullah Al-Rashoud, Humod ibn Miqbel Al-Utaibi, Saad ibn Abdullah Al-Muathir and Ghazi ibn Salem Al-Utaibi. Al-Jalidan (alias Abu Dawood Al-Najdi) and Naif Al-Shaybani reportedly figured in a tape released by Al-Qaeda in March.
Al-Rashoud is believed to be the son of an alleged Al-Qaeda member, Abdullah Al-Rashoud, who figured on a list of Saudi Arabia’s most wanted deviants and was reported to have been killed in Iraq last year, the Arabic daily Al-Watan reported yesterday.
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