Saudi Gazette/Okaz report, briefly, that an Al-Qaeda member arrested earlier this week by Saudi authorities was a financier and recruiter for the terrorist organization. The individual, yet to be publicly identified, was earlier reported to not be among the 85 ‘Most Wanted’. This piece suggests that police were led to him following the arrest and deportation of another Saudi Al-Qaeda member from Yemen last month.

Arrested man described as Qaeda financer
Abdullah Al-Oraifij

BURAIDAH – Sources have described the wanted man arrested in Qassim on Tuesday as an Al-Qaeda financer in his 30s who also recruited Saudi youths to the terrorist organization and facilitated their travel to troubled areas abroad. The arrest, which occurred following an exchange of fire in the south Buraidah’s Al-Sada District Tuesday, came around a month after the arrest of Saudi national Hasan Hussein Bin Alwan in Yemen. – Okaz/SG