This is the infamous fellow who chuckled over 9/11 with Osama on videotape. From FoxNews, with thanks to the many who emailed about this:
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia “” A senior associate of Usama bin Laden has surrendered to Saudi Arabian authorities, FOX News has confirmed.
Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al-Harbi, also known as Abu Suleiman al-Makki or “the crippled sheikh,” apparently turned himself in to the Saudi embassy in Tehran, Iran in response to the amnesty offered last month by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah on behalf of his incapacitated brother King Fahd.
He was then flown to Saudi Arabia, U.S. officials told FOX News.
Al-Harbi is best known for being in a videotape that surfaced a few days after Sept. 11, 2001, in which he is seen laughing and smiling with bin Laden as they discuss the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon over a meal, presumably in Afghanistan.
In a statement, the Saudi Interior Ministry said al-Harbi contacted the Embassy in Tehran from the Iranian-Afghan border, where he was stranded. It did not say what al-Harbi was wanted for. His name does not appear on the list of the kingdom’s 26 most wanted Islamic militants.
“Thank God, thank God … I called the embassy and we were very well-received,” the wheelchair-bound and smiling al-Harbi told Saudi state television in the airport terminal. “I have come obeying God, and obeying the [kingdom’s] rulers.”
Al-Harbi is the third man to take advantage of the amnesty, which was offered June 23, lasts for one month and promises to spare the lives of militants who surrender.