Yemen extradites five men wanted by Saudi
Saudi says only one suspect is on its wanted list
Yemen handed over to Saudi Arabia five men whose names it said were on a list of 85 persons wanted by the kingdom for involvement in terror attacks, a Yemeni security official said on Sunday.
But a spokesman for the Saudi interior ministry said that only one of the five was from the list made public in early February.
"Only one (of the five) is on the list. The other four are wanted over other problems," General Mansur al-Turki told AFP.
The suspects, all Saudi nationals, were extradited on Saturday and are wanted in connection with "terrorist and sabotage" acts, the Yemeni official told AFP.
They include Ali Abdullah al-Harbi, whose arrest the Yemen interior ministry announced in mid-March as part of a search operation for 116 suspects wanted in Yemen for security reasons, the official added.
Last month former Guantanamo prisoner Mohamed Atiq Awayd al-Awfi turned himself in to Yemeni authorities and was flown to his native Riyadh, after his name appeared on the Saudi most-wanted list.
Yemen is the ancestral homeland of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
In January, the local al-Qaeda branch announced in a video message posted online that the Saudi and Yemeni branches would merge to form al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, led by the Yemeni Nasser al-Wahaishi.
Only one is on the list. The other four are wanted over other problemsGeneral Mansur al-Turki