Topic: U.S. Hands Over Al Qaeda Figure

Washington Times
May 8, 2007
Pg. 10


RIYADH -- U.S. authorities have handed over to Saudi Arabia an al Qaeda figure who escaped from prison in Afghanistan and was recaptured, the Interior Ministry said yesterday.
Mohammad Jaafar al-Qahtani, a Saudi, was one of four al Qaeda figures who escaped in 2005 from a U.S. prison at Bagram in Afghanistan, where U.S. forces have been hunting al Qaeda since 2001.