The Ministry of Interior has said that it can neither confirm nor deny reports that Ahmed Bin Saleh Ali Al-Sheeha whose name is on the ministry's list of wanted terrorists, has been killed in Afghanistan. “The ministry has no information concerning the news nor of any telephone call to the wanted man's family informing of his death,” Ministry of Interior spokesman Mansour Al-Turki said Monday. The mother of Al-Sheeha had told Okaz that she had recently received a telephone call saying that Al-Sheeha had been buried in Afghanistan after receiving a fatal shot in the chest, prompting his family in Riyadh to conduct funeral rites. The telephone call was purportedly from someone who had accompanied Al-Sheeha and seen him die in battle in Afghanistan last May. Al-Sheeha's mother said that she last spoke to her son the previous month. Al-Sheeha, who would have been 27 this year, first disappeared three years ago after completing only one semester at the Faculty of Shariah at Imam Bin Saud University in Riyadh, but maintained contact with his family every two months, purportedly from Pakistan. The telephone call saying he had died was the first time his family had received suggestion that he was in Afghanistan. Al-Arabiya news channel, meanwhile, broadcast Sunday night a video of wanted Saudi terrorist Saeed Al-Shehri calling for financial help for Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Al-Shehri, who is in hiding in Yemen with other members of the organization, appears in the video with a Yemeni, identified by the channel as Mohammed Abdul Hakeem Al-Ghazali, who is believed to have assisted in the movement of Abdullah Al-Asiri, the author of the recent failed assassination attempt on Prince Muhammad Bin Naif. According to Al-Arabiya, the recording originated from a mobile telephone SIM card, similar to the video clips bearing appeals from Al-Qaeda second man Ayman Al-Zawahiri found on the telephones of several people who were arrested during last year's Haj.
