ASIR: The father of Saudi militant Badr Al-Shehri whose surrender was announced last Tuesday, has thanked the Kingdom's Ministry of Interior for ensuring his safe return and said his son had fallen victim to “Al-Qaeda's tricks and ill-intentions”. “The fact that my son returned of his own will and realizes that joining Al-Qaeda was a grave error shows he is now in his right mind,” said Muhammad Nasser Al-Shehri. “He decided to turn himself in when he discovered the tricks that Al-Qaeda was up to.” Badr Al-Shehri, 32, reportedly joined Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 2008. Tuesday's Interior Ministry statement said he contacted the authorities from Pakistan via his family, and his father urged all other wanted individuals to follow his example and “avail themselves of the pardon conditions of the Ministry of Interior”. “I'm grateful to the officials at the Ministry of Interior for the considerable care they have shown to Badr. Everyone should realize Al-Qaeda's games and intentions,” he said. It was the second announcement in a week of a Saudi on the 2009 Ministry of Interior list of 85 persons wanted in connection with security issues, after the ministry revealed last Friday the surrender of Jibran Al-Faifi. Al-Faifi was a Guantanamo returnee, and had joined up with Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen after completing the Al-Munasaha rehabilitation program.
