Terrorist recruitment and radicalization in Saudi Arabia.

From: Middle East Policy | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: Hegghammer, Thomas | Copyright information

In studies of the contemporary Middle East, Saudi Arabia is often seen as a source of Muslim extremism. Much has been written--rightly and wrongly--about Saudi Arabia's alleged role as an exporter of recruits, ideology and money to violent Islamist groups such as al-Qaeda. Yet there is a remarkable paucity of detailed studies of the Islamist community within Saudi Arabia itself, and the prevailing view of Saudi Islamism is rather monolithic. There have notably been few attempts at ...

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