RIYADH: A Saudi citizen who was “lured to restive areas” abroad, has surrendered and been repatriated, the interior ministry said yesterday, without specifying where he had been.
The authorities in January 2011 published a list of 47 nationals accused of having links to the Al Qaeda global extremist network.
The man, whose identity was not disclosed, “expressed the desire to return home and hand himself over to security services,” the official SPA news agency cited a ministry spokesman as saying.
Authorities have “facilitated his return to the kingdom with his wife,” it said. “His surrender will be taken into consideration” in any legal procedures taken subsequently, the spokesman said without elaborating. AFP
