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Abdul Hameed Bakier
"The terrorist attack on Khobar, Saudi Arabia—the hub of the Saudi oil industry—by four al-Qaeda operatives on May 29, 2004, provided a significant morale boost for al-Qaeda. The jihadi forums used this attack to boast about their strength and the righteousness of their cause. After the Khobar operation, two significant documents were released on the jihadi forums. One of the documents was authored by a well-known jihadist who uses the pseudonym Oweis Bradley. Bradley's document is in the form of an undated letter that is titled, "Al-Qaeda and the Shaking of the Oil Nets," where he recites the details of the Khobar attack. The second document provides a more in-depth account of the attack, provided by the leader of the group that performed the operation, Turki bin Fahd al-Moteiri (known as Fawwaz al-Nashami), in an interview with al-Qaeda's journal Sawt al-Jihad on June 15, 2004 (he was killed later that month by Saudi security forces in Riyadh). After studying these two documents, lessons can be learned from a security standpoint on what went wrong in preventing and managing the Khobar terrorism attack. It is important to analyze the Khobar incident to better prepare counter-terrorism units to avoid the same mistakes in the future."
