Rayed Abdullah Salem Al Harbi (1988 – 18 October 2009) was a citizen of
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
who was named on
Saudi Arabia's list of most wanted terrorist suspects 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 indi ...
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He was discovered with
Yussef al-Shiri at
Jizan
Jazan ( ar, جازان, Jāzān), also spelled ''Jizan'' ( ar, جيزان, Jīzān), ''Gizan'' or ''Gazan'', is a port city and the capital of Jizan Region, which lies in the southwest corner of Saudi Arabia and directly north of the border with ...
, near Saudi Arabia's border with
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
, while disguised in women's clothing, and wearing
suicide vests, on 18 October 2009.
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Criminal biography
The two men died in a shootout, as did a Saudi policeman, when a Saudi policewoman was going to search the two "women".
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A second policeman was injured.
A third man, who has not been identified, and who was not in disguise, was driving with them, was captured.
His interrogation led to the capture of six Yemeni accomplices.][
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The men were reported to have been members in Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
In addition to the suicide vests they were wearing their vehicle had a third completed suicide belt, and a fourth that had not yet been fully assembled.
''Asharq Alawsat
''Asharq Al-Awsat'' ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, Aš-Šarq al-ʾAwsaṭ, meaning "The Middle East") is an Arabic international newspaper headquartered in London. A pioneer of the "off-shore" model in the Arabic press, the paper is often noted f ...
'' reports the men were driving a truck rented in Jeddah, away.[
They report the men probably crossed the border at Al-Harth, away.
The individual who rented the truck remains at large.
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References
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1988 births
2009 deaths
Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda members