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Saudi militant suspect 'dies in custody'
A suspected Saudi militant extradited from Iraq last year has died in custody, an Islamist website said this week, calling the death a crime.
- Reuters
- Published: 00:06 June 15, 2008
Riyadh: A suspected Saudi militant extradited from Iraq last year has died in custody, an Islamist website said this week, calling the death a crime.
The site Ekhlaas, often used by Al Qaida-linked groups, said the family of Abdullah Mohammad Saleh Al Rumian received the body in the town of Buraida, north of Riyadh, last week with orders to bury him immediately.
It said Al Rumian was one of two Saudis handed over to Saudi Arabia by Iraq last year. He had been on a wanted list of 36 suspected militants issued by Riyadh after Al Qaida-linked militants launched a campaign of violence in 2003. Most of those on the list have been killed or arrested.
"This is a crime that cannot be forgiven," the user who posted the report said on the website.
An Interior Ministry spokesman said he would check the report.
The US-based opposition Saudi Information Agency said Al Rumian was 29 years old, and was the second suspected militant to die in state security detention in two years.
It said he was arrested in Arbil in north Iraq in September 2003, months after the US-led invasion, and that his brother died in a suicide bomb operation in Iraq the same year.
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