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13 Geo. J. Int'l Aff. 83 (2012)
The Future of Terrorist De-Radicalization Programs

handle is hein.journals/geojaf13 and id is 235 raw text is: Conflict&Security The Future of Terrorist De-Radicalization Programs John Horgan and Mary Beth Altier In August 2oog, Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri attempted to assassinate Saudi Prince and Deputy Minister of the Interior Muhammad bin Nayef in a suicide bombing. The prince had been responsible for the development of Saudi Ara- bia's counterterrorism policy since 2003, and al-Asiri, a member of al-Qaeda, had cleverly gained access to his pal- ace by expressing a desire to turn himself in and participate in the Saudi terrorist rehabilitation program. The suicide bombing failed, killing al-Asiri and only slightly injuring bin Nayef. A few months later, Ibrahim al-Rubaish, the lat- est mufti of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), released an audiotape in which he used Islamic doctrine to justify the assassination attempt on bin Nayef and al-Qaeda's use of targeted assassination against the enemies of Islam, more generally.' Ibrahim al-Rubaish had, in 2001, been captured by U.S. soldiers and was subsequently detained at Guantanamo Bay until December 2oo6, when he was repatriated to Saudi Arabia and enrolled in the terrorist rehabilitation program there. In April 20o8, al-Rubaish fled Saudi Arabia, alleg- edly with eleven other former Guantanamo detainees, to join AQAP in Yemen.' John Horgan is Director of the Inter- national Center for the Study of Terrorism at Pennsylvania State University. He is Asso- ciate Editor of Dynamics ofAsymmetric Conflict, and is a member of the edi- torial boards of jour- nals including Terrorism and Political Violence, and Studies in Conflict and Ter- rorsm. Mary Beth Altier is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at Pennsyl- vania State University. She holds a Ph.D. in politics from Princ- eton University and researches political attitudes and politi- cal behavior in divided societies. Summer/Fall 2012 1831

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