by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Nov 25, 2013 | Opinion
The Saudi Interior Ministry has done well to grant Saudi journalist Dawood Al-Shirian the opportunity, via MBC TV, to meet with Al-Qaeda prisoners in Saudi prisons. MBC conducted interviews with three prisoners, the most important of which was an interview with Walid...
by Mohammed Al-Shafey | May 16, 2013 | Interviews
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lawrence Wright, Al-Qaeda expert and author of The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, said that the Riyadh Compound Bombings marked the beginning of a new phase of global terrorism, as well as security coordination between Saudi...
by Mohammed Al-Shafey | May 14, 2013 | Interviews
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—In the week of the tenth anniversary of the Riyadh Compound Bombings, Asharq Al-Awsat spoke to US counter-terrorism expert Brian Fishman on the implications this attack had on the domestic, and global, war on terror. Brian Fishman is a...
by Mohammed Al-Shafey | May 14, 2013 | Features
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—This week is the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Riyadh Compound Bombings that targeted three residential housing compounds in the Saudi capital. The attack marked the beginning of a domestic terrorist campaign that lasted for a number of years,...
by Dr. Thomas Hegghammer | May 13, 2013 | Features
Stanford, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ten years ago yesterday, the Saudi capital, Riyadh, was rocked by three near-simultaneous suicide bombings at housing compounds for expatriates. Over 30 people died and 160 were injured in what was, and remains, the deadliest terrorist attack...
