And, in the soap opera department, Al-Shehri's wife's ex-husband (al Qahtani) pleads for the return of his 10 year old son Yousef. He says his ex-wife, Umm Yousef, the mother of their son Yousef, is the brother of a released Guantanamo detainee Yousef. Yousef and his friend Saeed al-Shehri were released together and Yousef fixed her up with al-Shehri, whom she married. When al-Shehri fled to Yemen from the Saudi rehab camp, Umm Yousef went with him, taking 10 year old Yousef. (Are you confused yet?)

Early 2009, however, Al-Qahtani was informed that his ex-wife’s new husband Saeed Al-Shehri, had disappeared and was thought to have gone to Yemen. “I was taken aback, but it didn’t occur to me that it would signify Umm Yousef going to Yemen as well, especially with her two children.”
In May, Al-Qahtani received a telephone call telling him that his son had failed to appear at school for five consecutive days.

“I presumed at first that it was because of the huge sandstorm that was affecting Riyadh at the time, but later I called Yousef’s grandmother and she told me her daughter and Yousef had gone missing from their home in Al-Naseem. They had checked all the hospitals and everywhere, but with no luck.”

Aft