Bin Laden's Focus On Saudi Arabia.

From: APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map | Date: January 14, 2008 | Copyright information

In a long article published on Jan 12, Michael Scheuer, a former CIA agent in charge of tracking al-Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden, wrote that - apart from his network's focus on Iraq, bin Laden's Dec. 29, 2007, message posted on the Internet, was meant to explain to his Neo-Salafi followers that his target was destruction of the royal regime in Saudi Arabia. The following are extracts from Scheuer's article, with underlining by APS (see the full text in ood1-IraqBinLadenSaudiOilJan2...

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