SANAA, 9 September 2003 — Saudi Arabia asked Yemen on Sunday to hand over a Saudi national wanted in the Kingdom on security charges and being held by Yemeni police, security sources said.
The request was conveyed to Yemen’s Interior Minister Brig. Rashad Al-Alimi by Saudi Ambassador to Sanaa Muhammad ibn Merdas Al-Qahtani, the sources told Arab News on condition of anonymity.
They would not give further details about the identity of the suspect or the charges against him.
On Thursday, a weekly newspaper published by the Yemeni Defense Ministry said Yemeni security forces had arrested a Saudi man earlier last week.
Citing unidentified Interior Ministry officials, the 26 September newspaper said the man was arrested after he had killed another Saudi fugitive who had been accompanying him in Yemen.
Sanaa and Riyadh have already swapped a number of suspects, some of them wanted by authorities in both countries on charges of involvement in terror acts.
The most recent security swap was on Aug. 17, when the Kingdom sent to Yemen four terror suspects, among whom were two linked to last year’s bombing of a French oil supertanker, the Limburg, off the coast of Yemen.
