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Three al Qaeda suspects surrender in Saudi Arabia

Interior Ministry says three militants contacted security authorities from abroad and asked to return home

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Pakistani Islamists gather against the killing of Osama bin Laden during a protest outskirt of Quetta on May 6. (AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistani Islamists gather against the killing of Osama bin Laden during a protest outskirt of Quetta on May 6. (AFP/Getty Images)

Three Saudi Arabian suspected
al Qaeda militants have surrendered to authorities, the official Saudi
Press Agency said on Wednesday, citing an unidentified Interior Ministry spokesman.

The three
suspects contacted security authorities from abroad and asked to return
home, the Riyadh-based news service said, without saying where they
returned from or when.

The Interior
Ministry under Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has cracked down on
al Qaeda militants and their supporters.

Saudi Arabia has arrested
11,527 people since September 11, 2001, for their alleged involvement in
terrorism, the ministry said on April 24.

Interior
Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour al-Turki said a Saudi al-Qaeda
militant, who was on the kingdom’s most wanted list, turned himself in,
SPA said on May 3.

Al-Qaeda
leader Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2 by US forces in Abbottabad,
50 km (30 miles) north of Pakistan’s capital. The US had been
hunting for the 54-year-old bin Laden and his supporters in
Afghanistan and Pakistan since al Qaeda attacked the US on September 11,
2001.

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