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.
English Arabic 1 Turki Nasir Al-Dandani تركي ناصر الدندني died by suicide July 2003 in al-JawfRoyal Crackdown , by John Walsh, Harvard International Review, Fall 2003; about Turki al-Dandani. Details are at present available only in Arabic.KSA's 19 most wanted and other information, Al Watan, 1 May 2004 2 Ali A. Al-Ghamdi علي عبد الرحمن الفقعسي الغامدي surrendered 26 June 2003Key Riyadh bombings suspect gives up, CNN, 26–27 June 2003 3 Khalid al-Juhani خالد محمد الجهني one of twelve dead perpetrators of the Riyadh compound bombings. 4 Saleh M. al-Oufi صالح محمد عوض الله العلوي العوفي became the leader after al-Muqrin death, killed 17 or 18 August 2005 in MadinahAl-Qaeda Chief in Kingdom Killed, Arab News, 19 August 2005 5 Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin عبد العزيز عيسى المقرن became the leader after al-Ayiri's death, killed in Riyadh 18 June 2004Profile: Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, BBC, 19 June 2004CBC report on al-Muqrin and three others killed, and AQAP's acknowledgement 6 Abdulrahman M. Yazji عبدالرحمن محمد يازجي killed 6 April 2005KSA wanted list , Embassy of Saudi Arabia to the USA 7 Hani S. Al-Ghamdi هاني سعيد الغامدي Riyadh Daily , 12 May 2003 (in Arabic) 8 Mohammed O. Al-Waleedi Al-Shihri محمد عثمان الوليدي الشهري 9 Rakan M. Al-Saikhan راكان محسن الصيخان killed 12 April 2004 in Riyadh 10 Yusuf Salih al-Ayiri يوسف صالح العييري الملقب بالبتار Islamic scholar, writer and al-Qaeda member killed June 2003 in Saudi ArabiaMilitant Ideology Atlas p. 355, Combating Terrorism Center, United States Military Academy 11 Othman H. Al Maqboul al-'Amari عثمان هادي آل مقبول العمري recanted, under an amnesty deal, 28 June 2004Top Saudi militant surrenders, The Tribune (of India), 29 June 2004Islam Today report of mediation in the surrender of Othman al-'Amri. The mediator was Safir al-Hawali; see Salman al-Ouda. 12 Bandar A. Al-Ghamdi بندر عبد الرحمن الغامدي captured September 2003 in YemenSummary of several captures in the Arabian Peninsula, BBC, 4 March 2004 and extradited to KSA 13 Ahmad N. Al-Dakheel أحمد ناصر الدخيل killed on July 28 in a police raid on a farm in Al-Qassim Province 14 Hamid F. Al-Asalmi al-Shammri حمد فهد الأسلمي الشمري 15 Faisal A. Al-Dakheel فيصل عبدالرحمن الدخيل killed with al-Muqrin 16 Sultan J. Al-Qahtani alias Zubayr Al-Rimi سلطان جبران القحطاني q.v., killed 23 September 2003 in Jizan 17 Jubran A. Hakami جبران علي حكمي 18 Abdul-Rahman M. Jabarah عبدالرحمن منصور جبارة "Canadian-Kuwaiti of Iraqi origin", dead according to al-Qaeda; brother of Kuwaiti-Canadian Mohamed Mansour Jabarah 19 Khalid A. Hajj or Abu-Hazim al-Sha'ir خالد علي بن علي حاج leader, killed in Riyadh March or April 2004
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.
+ December 6, 2003 list rank name nation 1. Abdulaziz Abdulmuhsin Almughrin Saudi 2. Rakan Muhsin Mohammad Alsaykhan Saudi 3. Khalid Ali Ali-Haj Yemeni 4. Kareem Altohami Almojati Moroccan 5. Salih Mohammad Awadallah Alalawy Aloafi Saudi 6. Ibrahim Mohammad Abdullah Alrayis Saudi 7. Saud Homood Obaid Alqotaini Alotaibi Saudi 8. Ahmad Abdul-Rahman Saqr al-Fadhli Saudi 9. Sultan Bjad So'doon Alotaibi Saudi 10. Abdullah Saud Abunayan Alsobaie'e Saudi 11. Faisal Abdulrahman Abdullah Aldakheel Saudi 12. Faris al-Zahrani Saudi 13. Khalid Mobarak Habeeb-Allah Alqurashi Saudi 14. Mansoor Mohammad Ahmad Faqeeh Saudi 15. Isa Saad Mohammad bin O'ooshan Saudi 16. Talib Saud Abdullah Al Talib Saudi 17. Mostafa Ibrahim Mohammad Mobaraki Saudi 18. Abulmajeed Mohammad Abdullah Almoneea' Saudi 19. Nasir Rashid Nasir Alrashid Saudi 20. Bandar Abdulrahman Abdullah Aldakheel Saudi 21. Othman Hadi Al Maqboul al-Amri Saudi 22. Talal A'nbar Ahmad A'nbari Saudi 23. A'amir Mohsin Moreef Al Zaidan Alshihri Saudi 24. Abdullah Mohammad Rashid Alroshood Saudi 25. Abdulrahman Mohammad Mohammad Yazji Saudi 26. Hosain Mohammad Alhasaki Moroccan
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.
+ 36 individuals wanted by Saudi Arabia on 2005-06-28 name status notes Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari 2005-07-03 KIA 36-year-old Moroccan; overstayed his visa when on the Hajj; hid out with his wife and daughter; killed in a shootout in Rawda. described as the head of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia. Fahd Farraj Mohammed Aljuwair 2006-02-27 KIA 35-year-old Saudi national Zaid Saad Zaid Alsammari 2005-09-07 KIA Killed in raid September 4–7, 2005 Abdulrahman Salih Abdulrahman Almit'eb 2005-12-27 KIA a 26-year-old Saudi Salih Mansour Mohsin Alfiraidi Alharbi 2005-09-07 KIA a 22-year-old Saudi Killed in raid September 4–7, 2005 Sultan Salih Hosan Alhasri 2005-09-07 KIA a 26-year-old Saudi; Killed in raid September 4–7, 2005 Mohammed Abdulrahman Alsuwailmi 2005-12-27 KIA a 23-year-old Saudi; Mohammed Salih Mohammed Alghaith 2006-02-24 KIA a 23-year-old Saudi Abdullah Abdulaziz Ibrahim Altuwaijri 2006-02-24 KIA a 21-year-old Saudi Mohammed Saeed Mohammed Alsiyam Alamri 2005-07-25 Arrested a 25-year-old Saudi Ibrahim Abdullah Ibrahim Almateer 2006-02-27 KIA a 21-year-old Saudi Waleed Mutlaq Salim Alraddadi a 21-year-old Saudi Naif Farhan Jalal Aljihaishi Alshammari 2005-09-07 KIA a 24-year-old Saudi Killed in raid September 4–7, 2005 Majed Hamid Abdullah Alhasiri 2005-08-18 KIA a 29-year-old Saudi Reportedly exploded a suicide belt, during an attempt to capture him by Saudi security officials. Abdullah Mohayya Shalash Alsilaiti Alshammari 2006-02-27 KIA a 24-year-old Saudi Noor Mohammed Musa a 21-year-old Chadian national. Manoor Mohammed Yousef a 24-year-old Chadian national. Othman Mohammed Hasan Korati a 23-year-old Chadian national. Mohsen Ayed Fadhel Alfadhli a 25-year-old Kuwaiti national. Abdullah Wild Mohammed Sayyed a 37-year-old Mauritanian national. Zaid Hasan Mohammed Hameed Arrested a 34-year-old Yemeni national. Under arrest in Yemen Fahd Salih Rizqallah Almohayyani a 24-year-old Saudi. Adnan bin Abdullah bin Faris al Omari 2005-11-08 Extradited a 28-year-old Saudi. Transferred to Saudi Arabia on September 11, 2005. Marzooq Faisal Marzooq Alotaibi a 32-year-old Saudi. Adel Abdullatif Ibrahim Alsaneea' a 27-year-old Saudi Mohammed Abdulrahman Mohammed Aldeet a 21-year-old Saudi. Sultan Sinaitan Mohammed Aldeet a 24-year-old Saudi. Salih Saeed Albitaih Alghamdi a 40-year-old Saudi. Fayez Ibrahim Omer Ayyoub 2005-07-01 Surrendered a 30-year-old Saudi Khalid Mohammed Abbas Alharbi a 29-year-old Saudi Mohammed Othman Mufreh Alzahrani a 44-year-old Saudi Abdullah Mohammed Salih Alramyan a 27-year-old Saudi Mohammed Salih Sulaiman Alrushoodi a 24-year-old Saudi Saad Mohammed Mubarak Aljubairi Alshihri a 31-year-old Saudi Ali Mater Ibrahim Alosaimi a 23-year-old Saudi. Faris Abdullah Salim Aldhahiri Alharbi a 22-year-old Saudi His younger brother Rayed Abdullah Salem Al Harbi was killed in a shootout with Saudi police, in October 2009, while dressed in a head-to-toe women's garment, and while wearing an explosive suicide belt.
List of February 3, 2009 The most recently published list was published on February 3, 2009. It listed 85 individuals, 83 of whom were Saudis, and two were from Yemen. Carol Rosenberg, reporting in the Miami Herald, wrote that six of the men on the new most wanted list were former Guantanamo captives. Robert Worth, reporting in the New York Times, wrote that fourteen Saudis, formerly held in Guantanamo, had fallen under suspicion of supporting terrorism following their release. The men were all believed to be living outside of Saudi Arabia, some of them receiving militant training. They were promised lenient treatment, and encouraged to turn themselves in at the nearest Saudi embassy.
Those on the new list include three Saudis who appeared in a threatening al Qaeda video: Said Ali al-Shihri, Abu Hareth Muhammad al-Awfi and Nasir al-Wuhayshi, and another individual named Abdullah al-Qarawi. Al-Wuhayshi claims he is the leader of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Al-Shihri and Al-Awfi are former Guantanamo captives, and Al-Shihri stated he was Al-Wuyashi's deputy.
The Saudi Gazette reported that Saudi security officials identified an individual named Saleh Al-Qaraawi as the leader of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia.
An article published in Asharq Alawsat on February 6, 2009, noted the range in age among the suspects—from seventeen to fifty-two. This article named Abdullah El Qarawi, who it described as the "most dangerous" individual on the list, as the leader of Al Qaeda operations in the Persian Gulf. According to the article Abdullah El Qarawi is just 26 years old, and most of the individuals on the list are between 25 and 25. The article listed the names and ages of fifteen other individuals.
Another article in the Asharq Alawsat identified other individual from the list, including: Abdullah al-Abaed—wanted for the assassination of a senior police official, and Mohamed Abul-Khair, one of Osama bin Laden's bodyguards, and one of his sons-in-law.
On February 7, 2009 the Saudi Gazette reported some details of some of the wanted men. The article named seven men it identified as former Guantanamo captives, and five other most wanted suspected terrorists it did not identify as former Guantanamo captives.
+ Individuals said to be named on the February 2009 list ISN Rank Age Names Notes 71 27 Mish'al Muhammad Rashid Al-Shedocky Repatriated on May 14, 2003—one of the first captives to be repatriated. His repatriation was reported to have been part of an exchange of prisoners that resulted in the release of five United Kingdom citizens. In 2014, AQAP indicated in a three-part documentary about the group's former deputy leader Said Ali al-Shihri’s life and death that al-Shedocky was dead by having the phrase "May Allah accept him" posted next to his name. The phrase is reserved for jihadists who have been killed in battle. The group did not provide any details on al-Shedocky's death. 105 31 Adnan Muhammed Ali Al Saigh Repatriated on May 19, 2006. The Saudi Gazette reported he is believed to have traveled to a neighboring country with his brother-in-law, fellow suspect and fellow former Guantanamo captive, Othman al-Ghamdi, leaving behind his wife and son. 114 23 Yousuf Mohammed Mubarak Al Jubairi Al Shahri Possibly the brother in law of fellow suspect and former Guantanamo captive Sa'id Ali Jabir Al Khathim Al Shihri. Repatriated to Saudi Arabia on November 9, 2007. Killed in a firefight with Saudi police on October 18, 2009 together with Rayed Abdullah Salem Al Harbi. 177 Fahd Salih Sulayman Al Jutayli According to his mother he was living openly in Saudi Arabia just days prior to the publication of the most wanted list. Reported to have been killed by Yemeni security officials in September 2009. 184 35 Othman Ahmad Othman al-Ghamdi Repatriated on June 24, 2006.Thirteen Saudis and a Turkistani return to Saudi from Guantanamo , Middle East News, June 25, 2006 Worked as a car dealer following his release.