Missle Strike in Pakistan, Senior Al Qaeda Surrenders in Saudi Arabia

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia says a senior al-Qaida leader has returned to the country voluntarily and turned himself in.

The Interior Ministry says Fahad al-Ruwaily was on a list of the kingdom's 85 most wanted militants living abroad. Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki said he returned to Saudi Arabia Wednesday, but he refused to give more information.

A news Web site close to the ministry said Thursday that al-Ruwaily was a key figure in al-Qaida training camps along Syria's border with Iraq. The Doaa Web site said he provided fighters with weapons and forged travel documents to help them enter Iraq from Syria.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Missiles believed to have been fired by a U.S. drone aircraft killed four people in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on Thursday, hours after a similar strike killed seven in neighboring South Waziristan.

The drone attacks coincided with the U.S. State Department posting $5 million rewards for information leading to the arrest or location of two al Qaeda allies based in Waziristan.

Two missiles struck a house near the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan early on Thursday, killing four people, according to Pakistani intelligence officials in the area.

Hours earlier, missiles killed seven people, including four Arab militants in a strike that targeted two vehicles as they drove through the Makeen area of South Waziristan, a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.