RIYADH, August 25 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Only days after 21-year-old Saud Al-Rasheed voluntarily surrendered to Saudi authorities after being deemed by the U.S. as a suspect in the September 11 investigation, the Saudi interior ministry said Sunday, that he would be put on trial if found to have links to terrorism.

The Saudi government ruled out an extradition to the United States.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday said Al-Rasheed may have links with the hijackers who carried out the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington.

Saud returned to the kingdom on Thursday from Egypt and immediately turned himself in to the Saudi security authorities.

“The Saudi security authorities followed with concern media reports about Saud ... It was found that he was in the kingdom and was detained on Thursday,” said an interior ministry spokesman quoted by the official SPA agency.

“Preliminary investigations indicate that he had never traveled to the United States, but he had traveled to Afghanistan in mid June 2000 and returned mid June the following year,” the spokesman added.

“Investigations are still ongoing with the man. If it is proven that he has any links with terrorism, he will be referred to the Shari’a [Islamic] court,” for trial, the spokesman added.

Abdul Aziz al-Rasheed, father of Saud, said Saturday his son “has turned himself in because he is confident he is innocent and we are confident of the fairness of the Saudi authorities.”

He categorically denied that his son had undergone any military training or had ever had any links with Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network or any other organization.

The FBI on Tuesday released a passport photo of Saud and said it considered him armed and dangerous.

The bureau wanted Saud following recent analysis of evidence collected in the investigation around the September 11 attacks on the United States, carried out mainly by Saudis, that turned up his passport, issued in Riyadh in May 2000.

Saud’s father accused Pakistani authorities of handing over his photo and other information to the United States because his son had gone to Afghanistan through Pakistan.

The father said his son graduated on a computer training course and was briefly employed in the education ministry before starting his own business.