America's Struggle Against the Wahhabi/Neo-Salafi Movement

Internal and External Security in the Arab Gulf States

“…62 Regional-security officials acknowledge that the return of foreign insurgents from Iraq will inject a new dynamic into the regional security environment and will remain a latent risk for many years to come. 63 In January 2009, the emergence of two Saudi returnees from Guantanamo in positions of leadership in al-Qaeda in Yemen highlighted the weaknesses in regional and international security responses to the challenge of transnational terrorism. Following their release from Guantanamo, Saud al-Shihri and Muhammad al-Awfi spent five months in Saudi Arabia's much-vaunted rehabilitation and counterradicalization programs and were deemed ready for reintegration into society in May 2008.…”

Radicalization and Terrorism: Research within the Australian Context

“…The motives of those who carry out terrorism in the West range from retaliation for Western military presence in Saudi Arabia (Schwartz 2007), to a nation's involvement in killing Muslims in the war in Iraq (Ramakrishna 2005). This contrasts with terrorism in a Muslim country which is done in order to gain independence from corrupt, oppressive and authoritarian regimes (Hassan 2008 (Schwartz 2007). This fatwa of Ibn Taymiyyah has undergone scrutiny by a group of 15 leading Islamic scholars who gathered in Mardin in 2010.…”