Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 03/2015

Saudi Arabia's Old al-Qaeda Terrorists Form New Threat

Lori Plotkin Boghardt

February 2015

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

New allegations by an al-Qaeda prisoner in the United States have revived questions about official Saudi support for 9/11, while at home the kingdom has been re-arresting former al-Qaeda convicts in a new war on terror.