FBI seeks Saudi national in Sept. 11 probe

Al-Rasheed

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI issued an alert Tuesday to detain a Saudi national whose passport and photograph turned up during the investigation of the September 11 attacks.

Saud A.S. Al-Rasheed, 21, has not been charged with a crime, but FBI officials want him for questioning and said they consider him armed and dangerous. According to the agency's Web site, he is suspected as an associate of the terrorist hijackers.

His whereabouts are unknown, and Interpol, the international police organization, has been notified.

According to the FBI, on August 15 "materials previously recovered during the war on terrorism were found to be related to several of the September 11 hijackers."

Among those materials was a copy of Al-Rasheed's Saudi passport, which bears the number C161433. It was issued in Riyadh in May 2000.

FBI officials said Al-Rasheed's picture also was found among photographs of other September 11 hijackers, although it is unclear whether he and other hijackers appeared in the same photograph.