Saudi list of most-wanted suspected terrorists
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Periodically Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Interior publishes a most wanted list.
According to Asharq Alawsat Saudi Arabia has published four lists of "most wanted" suspected terrorists, and those lists contained 19, 26, 36 and 85 individuals.
The list of 85 most wanted suspected terrorists published in February 2009 named eleven former Guantanamo captives.
Earlier lists
On May 7, 2003, the Saudi Interior Ministry announced a list of 19 names who it said were planning to carry out subversive activities. On May 12, 2003, the Riyadh compound bombings took place.
List of December 6, 2003
A list published on December 5, 2003 contained twenty-six names.
When a new list was published in February 2009 Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported that all, but one of the captives had been killed or captured.
List of June 28, 2005
The list of June 28, 2005 contained thirty-six names.
The Saudi government encouraged those named on the list to surrender, and promised lenient treatment.
By April 7, 2007 the Saudi government reported that twenty-three of those individuals had been killed or captured.
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