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Counter-TerrorismHere’s What Often Happens After You Kill a Terrorist Leader
The efficacy of removing terrorist leaders depends in part on the nature of the group targeted. In her 2008 book How Terrorism Ends, Audrey Kurth Cronin of George Mason University identified leadership decapitation as one of several factors that have historically been involved, sometimes in combination, in the demise of terrorist organizations—with negotiations, loss of popular support, and repression among the others. “Those that have ended through decapitation,” she has written, “have tended to be hierarchically structured, young, characterized by a cult of personality, and lacking a viable successor.” In her own study, Jordan found that religious organizations “are highly resistant to leadership decapitation.”
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QatarQatar’s Support of Extremists Alienates Allies Near and Far
Standing at the front of a conference hall in Doha, the visiting sheikh told his audience of wealthy Qataris that to help the battered residents of Syria, they should not bother with donations to humanitarian programs or the Western-backed Free Syrian Army.
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ExtremismSaudi public calls for severe punishment of extremists
It is very sad that the people who are the right image of Saudi Arabia are not recognized and have to endure such uncivilized behavior from the fanatics who have no right to be in positions that allow them to harass citizens and expatriates.
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JordanJordanian filmmaker wins award for best director at Venice film festival
Naji Abu Nowar, a Jordanian filmmaker, won the Orizzonti Award for Best Director at the 71st Venice Film Festival
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EgyptEgyptians take to Twitter to trash ‘chat is sinful’ fatwa
The edict prohibits “electronic conversations between the sexes on social media, except when necessary.”
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ConstructionSaudi Arabia to award $55bn contracts in 2014
Saudi Arabia is set to remain the Middle East’s largest projects market for the foreseeable future as the Kingdom focuses on job creation and the diversification of its economy. In 2014, it is forecasted to award $55 billion worth of contracts, comfortably ahead of the UAE, the region’s second largest market.
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Saudi EconomyAnalysis | Saudi Economy – Jadwa Chartbook – September 2014
Economic data for July was strong with the non-oil PMI expanding at the fastest rate since September 2012. Consumer spending also remained robust. Cement production and sales declined on the back of seasonal trends, but also due to changes in labor market.
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ISIS and Saudi ArabiaOpinion: The Real Aim of ISIS Is to Replace the Saud Family as the New Emirs of Arabia
ISIS however, is a neo-Ikhwani rejectionist protest that is taking place outside the kingdom -- and which, moreover, follows the Juhayman dissidence in its trenchant criticism of the al-Saud ruling family. This is the deep schism we see today in Saudi Arabia, between the modernizing current of which King Abdullah is a part, and the "Juhayman" orientation of which bin Laden, and the Saudi supporters of ISIS and the Saudi religious establishment are a part. It is also a schism that exists within the Saudi royal family itself.
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JournalismIslamic State Militant Beheads U.S. Journalist Steven Sotloff in Video, Group Says
American journalist Steven Sotloff has been executed and beheaded by the Islamic State group, according to a new video posted on Monday.
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HajjSaudi Arabia: Over 60,000 security officers to be deployed in holy sites
More than 60,000 security officers will be deployed in Saudi Atrabia's holy sites during this year's Hajj season to ensure the pilgrims are able to perform their rituals in peace and comfort, Maj. Gen. Osman Al-Mahraj, director of general security, has said.
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