Faris bin Ahmed bin Jam'an bin Ali Aal Shuwayl al-Hassani al-Zahrani al-Azdi (1977 – ; ) was on Saudi Arabia's list of 26 'most-wanted' suspected terrorists. On 2 January 2016, Sheikh Zahrani was executed by the Saudi state along with 46 others convicted of terrorism. Life Fares bin Ahmad al-Zahrani was born in 1977 in al-Jawfa’ village in Bilad Zahran in the Al-Baha region of Saudi Arabia. His family later moved to a nearby village known as al-Nu’us, where Fares would attend and graduate elementary school. Later he would attend and graduate high school in the same village in 1996, receiving high grades. Information on where Fares went to college differs depending on the source. Here are a list of schools that he was said to have attended: Kulliyat ‘Ulum al-Quran in al-Madina, for one semester كلية علوم القرآن في المدينة المنورة The University of King Khaled in Abha (From here he got a BA in 2000 according to some sources). There is no clear date when Fares al-Zahrani became a militant wanted by the Saudi authorities. What is known is that he started writing under two identities online and after a series of deadly clashes between the Saudi government and Jihadis in 2003, a list of 26 suspected terrorists was released in November with Fares al-Zahrani on it. Fares al-Zahrani was active online under two names: al-Mutaharek and Abu Jandal al-Azadi (a pen name derived from his Azd tribal heritage that he digitally published some of his earlier books under). Among the message boards Fares was active in was Minbar al-Jihad wa-al-Tawhid, a popular message board dealing with Jihad-related issues. The same blog later interviewed him in the only known interview he's ever given. al-Zahrani's first noteworthy book was al-Baheth ‘Ann Hikm Qatl Afrad wa-Dubat al-Mabaheth (English: For Those Who are Looking for the Rule to Kill Police Officers), released after a series of deadly confrontations with the Saudi police and came as the product of many online arguments on Jihadi blogs. It contained an attempt to find religious approval for killing police officers. al-Zahrani was able to make the links between the Quran, Hadith, and various militant thinkers (namely Sayyid Qutb and Abu Qutadah) to justify the act of murder. al-Zahrani's second book on a similar topic, Tahrid al-Mujahidin al-Abtal Ala Ihya’ Sinat al-Ightiyal (English: Encouraging the Hero Mujahidin to Revive the Sanctioned Practice: Assassination) again provided religious