Sheikh Ahmad Bin Hamoud Al-Khalidi has recanted and withdrawn his earlier "fatwa", describing it as "a grave mistake" in an interview telecast Saturday by the Saudi Television. Al-Khalidi was the third Saudi scholar detained this year for promoting militancy who renounced his support for militants and condemned terrorist attacks. According to SPA, Al-Khalidi is also one of the three scholars arrested in Al-Madinah last May following the Riyadh bombings for issuing fatwas in which he had declared killing security personnel during confrontations as "halal" (permissible).
