Saudi terrorist cells await the return of jihadists from Iraq
- 2005
Beleaguered by a brutal domestic counterterrorism campaign and drained by the export of jihadists to Iraq, Saudi Arabia's terrorist cells seemed to have lapsed into an operational coma. But, recent indicators suggest that local terrorists are beginning to return to the country and that terrorist inactivity might instead be an operational pause. This article forecasts the future evolution of the terrorist threat in the kingdom.