Dangerous wanted killed in al-Qaseim attack; Saudi Arabia: FBI interrogated al-Bayoumi
Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 8/6/2003

The American embassy in Riyadh disclosed yesterday that agents for the FBI interrogated the Saudi Arabia Omar al-Bayoumi who is in Saudi Arabia on Sunday and that he will be reinterrogated by another team in the same office later.

It was remarkable that the interrogation was made without a prior notification and before the White House announced the intention to make a second interrogation with al-Bayoumi who was also interrogated following the attacks of September 11 attack, and was accused then of having links to two of the executors of the attacks. The new investigation is made after reopening al-Bayoumi file in a report by the US Congress which issued its report about the September 11 attacks in which 28 pages were devoted for Saudi Arabia and kept classified and only disclosed talks on the relations between al-Bayoumi and the Saudi intelligence. A matter which was denied by Riyadh.

An official at the US embassy in Riyadh said that a team from the FBI arrived in Riyadh by the end of last week especially to investigate with al-Bayoumiu, noting that the investigation on Sunday was held by FBI officials working for the embassy.

In the same context, the Saudi news agency said yesterday that the Saudi ArabiaÕs Crown Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz received the deputy for the US national security advisor for fighting terrorism and members of an accompanying delegation. No additional details were given.

Meantime, the Saudi ministry of the interior disclosed yesterday that two of the wanted persons who were killed in confrontations with the Saudi security forces in past weeks were from Chad and other four were of Saudi nationals and the name of one of them " Ahmad Bin Nasser Abdullah al-Dakhil " was mentioned on the list of wanted persons linked to al-Qaida organization issued by the ministry before Riyadh's explosions in May. The statement said that al-Dakhil was among the "most dangerous" wanted man.

Three persons whose identity was disclosed yesterday were killed in clashes between the police and wanted persons on July 28 in a farm in Ghada town in al-Qaseim area to the northern east of Saudi Arabia.

The statement said that the killed persons took part in clashes with the police in Mecca in June.

The ministry disclosed the identity of the Saudi man, Ibrahim Bin Abdullah Khalaf al-Harbi, who was arrested in the same breaking in operation. However, the list announced by the ministry includes the name of 19 persons. They are 17 Saudis, one Yemeni and one Canadian of Iraqi origin.

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