Jihad As An Ideology Is Dying In Saudi Arabia

Atop the Kingdom Tower in Riyadh

Why Jihad's Waning in Bin Laden's Homeland
-- Time Magazine

For an adoptive New Yorker, to spend the 9/11 anniversary in Osama bin-Laden's hometown felt eerie — doubly so because Riyadh has come to be known as the city of two towers. The Al-Faisaliyah and the Kingdom Tower, gleaming glass and steel skyscrapers, are less than a decade old, but already they have acquired iconic status: on Arabic news TV, the image of either or both towers is used to signal the viewer that a story's dateline is in Saudi Arabia.

Two nights earlier, while taking in the glittering lights of Riyadh from the viewing deck of Al-Faisaliyah, I felt a sudden chill despite the warm desert air when remembering how, on my first visit to New York nearly 14 years ago, I had bundled up against the icy winds swirling around the deck of the World Trade Center's South Tower.

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My Comment: Permitting thousands of their fanatics to go to Iraq and get killed by U.S. forces helped a tremendous amount. This does not include the thousands who came back wounded, maimed, and crippled from losing the many battles that they had against U.S. and Iraq military forces.

I will also wager that the men and mullahs who sent these young fanatics to die in Iraq for jihad are still walking the streets in Riyadh whole and untouched from the war in the north. I am also sure that the families and their neighbors who lost love ones are noticing this, and are probably not pleased by this development.