Shehri, Al-Qaeda's “second man” in the Arabian Peninsula, was mainly instrumental in recruiting women into his deviant organization and to use them in operations against the Kingdom using Yemen as the launching pad. According to sources, Saeed Al-Shehri was the one who recruited Haila Al-Qusayyer, 47. She was detained by security forces in Buraidah in Al-Qassim Region in March while hiding in one of the houses in Al-Khubaitiah District. The house belonged to a terrorist wanted by the Saudi Ministry of Interior. Information obtained by Okaz shows that Saeed Al-Shehri was planning to marry Al-Qusayyer after her infiltration into Yemen. Saeed assigned Yusuf Al-Shehri, brother of his wife Wafa Al-Shehri nicknamed Umm Hajer Al-Azadi and Raed Al-Harbi, to carry out a sophisticated terrorist operation targeting important figures in the Kingdom. They were both killed in a security operation at Hamra Al-Darb in Jizan on Oct. 13, 2009. Both figured in the Ministry of Interior's list of wanted terrorists. Saeed Al-Shehri was also involved in planning infiltration of Haila Al-Qusayyer into Yemen in order to marry her and recruit her in the criminal organization. Donation drive The contents of the information which Okaz was the first to obtain and publish ascertains that Haila Al-Qusayyer, who is described as the financier and the first lady of Al-Qaeda, shows that Saeed involved Haila in collecting funds for his deviant organization. Saeed Al-Shehri was in direct contact with her and goaded her to collect money. Haila used a message recorded in Saeed's voice and saved in her mobile urging some selected individuals to provide money in support of the so-called Mujahideen in Yemen. Illicit seclusion According to the information obtained by Okaz, Al-Qusayyer's confessions were attested in a Shariah Court. It shows that the detention took place in the house of a wanted militant where an illicit seclusion took place. This reveals the real face of Al-Qaeda organization and its mischievous deeds. This raises a crucial question: How can a Muslim woman be in seclusion with an unrelated man besides being implicated in gaining the sympathy of philanthropists and collect donations for nefarious activities? No wonder that none from her family ever visited her after her detention even though security agencies have allowed daily visits. This also goes on to prove that she was despised by her family because of her criminal behavior and false belief under which she brands the whole society as infidel. Nullification of guardianship It is also learnt that Al-Qusayyer had married extremist Takfiri, Abdul Kareem Al-Humaid, after she nullified her brother's guardianship as he was opposed to the marriage right from the beginning. Al-Qusayyer moved a court for the nullification of her brother's guardianship to marry Al-Humaid. She did not stay long with Al-Humaid and married Muhammad Sulaiman Al-Wakeel, who earlier had brought them (Al-Qusayyer and Al-Humaid) together. Al-Wakeel was killed in one of the fiercest confrontations in a terrorist den where 11 wanted terrorists were dug in following the failure of Al-Qaeda organization in storming the Ministry of Interior building in Riyadh on Dec. 29, 2004. House arrest Al-Humaid, who was kept under house arrest in a private residence in Taif to protect the society from his evil deeds, was found to be the one who shut his daughter in a cage in his residence in Al-Qassim. Three government agencies had reported him to the authorities because of his misconduct. Woman and Al-Qaeda Anti-terrorism experts believe that the Al-Qaeda organization has tarnished the image of Muslim women. Its members have ignored the decency and purity through which a Muslim woman is recognized by disguising themselves in women's clothes during their movement from one place to another. This was evidently seen in the three Takfiri leaders Ali Al-Khudhair, Nasser Al-Fahd and Ahmad Al-Khaldi, who were arrested while disguised as women. The same also happened with the terrorists Raed Al-Harbi and Yusuf Al-Shehri, who were killed in the Hamra Al-Darb confrontation in Jizan. They were found disguised in women's dress while trying to cross security checkpoints. Insult to women Authorities in the Kingdom have refrained from revealing Haila Al-Qusayyer's identity to preserve her dignity and honor as a woman. In fact, the security authorities have dealt in the same way with a number of wives of the wanted terrorists, as has been the case with the wife of wanted terrorist Saleh Al-Owfi, who was freed by security forces from a den where Al-Qaeda elements had been keeping the head of the American national Paul Marshall Johnson. They were keeping his head in a fridge waiting for an opportunity to hang his head in the Justice Square in the heart of Riyadh. The security authorities have also corrected the status of the marriage of Ali Al-Faq'asi Al-Ghamdi to a Moroccan woman after his surrender in 2003. There are so many examples confirming the keenness of the security authorities on preserving women's privacy and dignity regardless of their nationality.
