Saudis officials reported today that there are several eminent al Qaeda supporters among 15 terrorists killed and 7 captured during the Riyadh suburb gun battles. It was proved that four of those who were killed are on the list of Saudi most wanted terrorists, including Abdul-Rahman Mohammed Mohammed Yazji.

Yesterday the Saudi Interior Ministry was to report concerning the DNA test results that were expected to confirm the identities of the suspected al Qaeda militants killed and captured during the skirmish in the northwest of Riyadh.

The information that the head of al Qaeda in the Arab peninsula, Saleh Oufi is seriously wounded was neither confirmed nor denied.

An Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Mansour Turki, said that among 14 militants killed in a battle that began Sunday and ended Tuesday were the suspected leader of the Islamic terror group in Saudi Arabia and a man linked to the March 2004 Madrid train bombings.

"We managed to capture really important fish," a senior Interior Ministry told the reporters.