RIYADH, July 17 (AFP) - A wanted Saudi militant who surrendered to the kingdom's embassy in Damascus under a royal amnesty is an epileptic, his half-brother said Saturday.
Ibrahim al-Sadek al-Kaydi al-Harbi, "is naive, uneducated, unemployed and suffers from epilepsy" Abdul Ghaffar al-Harbi told Al-Arabiya television.
He also confirmed earlier reports that his brother had traveled "several times to Afghanistan and Bosnia".
"He returned from Bosnia (to Saudi Arabia) after he was injured ... (He) received treatment here before disappearing again," he told the Dubai-based channel.
Harbi, who surrendered on Thursday, will remain in Syria until the required documents for his extradition are finalised, Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh reported Saturday.
Harbi, 33, is not on a most-wanted list issued by Saudi authorities. He became the fourth militant to turn himself in under the one-month amnesty.
Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz said Monday the amnesty issued June 23 by King Fahd to Islamist extremists to surrender would not be extended.
Thirteen militants on the most-wanted list remain at large, down from 26 when it was issued last December. The others have either been killed in clashes with security forces or surrendered, one of them under the amnesty.