Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Al Qaeda member surrenders, Saudi Arabia says - Yahoo! News

Al Qaeda member surrenders, Saudi Arabia says - Yahoo! News: "In the wake of Osama bin Laden's demise, is al Qaeda falling apart?

The Saudi Interior Ministry said today that a senior al Qaeda member on Riyadh's most-wanted list named Khaled al-Qahtani called from abroad and turned himself in.

'Interior Ministry's spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki said in a statement Wednesday that Khaled Hathal Abdullah al-Atifi al-Qahtani contacted the security authorities from an undisclosed country and expressed his wish to come home,' the Associated Press reports.

'Al-Qahtani was reunited with his family and his surrender will be taken into consideration while looking into his case, Al-Turki said.'"

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