Al-Faisal visits Iran to inquire about al-Qaida

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal will head in the "few coming days" to Tehran to discuss the file of members of al-Qaida organization who are arrested in Iran, according to a diplomatic source in Riyadh yesterday.

The source explained that al-Faisal wants to learn from his Iranian counterpart Kamal Kharazi whether there are Saudis among those detainees.

On May 25th, Iran announced it hold "several" members of al-Qaida organization. On May 30, Kharazi said that al-Qaida members who are detained in Iran were arrested on May 12, the day of the suicide attacks which targeted housing complexes in Riyadh. He, thereby denied those arrested persons to have links to the Riyadh attacks.

In 2002, Iran handed over Saudi Arabia 14 Saudi suspected to have links to al-Qaida organization, who had entered its territories from Afghanistan and Riyadh released 6 of them.