A Saudi named on the Ministry of Interior's list of 85 wanted persons has said that he has no connection to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Adnan Mohammed Al-Sa'igh, a Guantanamo returnee and listed as number 76 on the ministry's list of Feb. 2009, made the statement during a recent telephone call to his wife – the sister of wanted man Othman Al-Ghamdi – in which he refused to reveal his whereabouts, only to say that he was “in the wide lands of Allah”. Al-Sa'igh's elder brother, Yahya Al-Sa'igh, spoke to Okaz by telephone on Saturday from the family home in Taif, saying that Adnan had “repeatedly tried to speak to his mother but was unable to as she is out of the region, so he called his wife”. Al-Sa'igh has two children from his marriage. “I appealed to him to come back to the Kingdom and hand himself in to the authorities and show them that he has no connection with Al-Qaeda or the Houthis,” Yahya said. “I told him to ignore the calls of those who wish him no good.” Born in Taif in 1978, Adnan Mohammed Ali Al-Sa'igh left the Kingdom on Jan. 16 2001, to reappear when he was detained by US forces in Afghanistan and subsequently taken to Guantanamo Bay with other prisoners. Following concerted efforts from the Saudi government, Al-Sa'igh was brought to the Kingdom on March 12, 2007 and entered into the “Al-Munasaha” advisory rehabilitation program. He later joined up with a group led by Saeed Al-Shehri, the Saudi acknowledged as Al-Qaeda's number two in Yemen after Yemeni Nasser Al-Wuhaishi and is believed to have entered Yemen. Mom has no knowledge The mother of Al-Halik Abdullah Asiri, the suicide attacker who failed in his attempt to assassinate Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs, on Aug. 27 of last year, has, meanwhile, said that she has no knowledge of the whereabouts of another of her sons, Ibrahim Asiri, who is on the ministry's list of 85 wanted and thought to be with members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Umm Muhammad, so-named after her eldest son, said on Saturday that Ibrahim's whereabouts were not known, but that he was not in Yemen. “We don't know where he is, he hasn't spoken to us for two years, and neither he nor anyone else on his behalf has spoken to us since his brother's attempt to kill Prince Muhammad Bin Naif,” Umm Muhammad said. Following the recent incidents, the Ministry of Interior has reiterated that the “doors of repentance” are open for those on the wanted list who wish to return to the Kingdom and surrender to the authorities.
