"Rocking the House of Saud," WBUR (NPR) On Point Radio, 11.10.03

Riyadh is on alert after a suicide bombing over the weekend. Less than a week after the White House urged stronger democracy in the Middle East, the Saudis are under attack. A renewed hunt for Al Qaeda begins.

Can the goals of stability and individual liberty hold up the house together?

GUESTS:

Khaled Al-Maeena, Editor-in-Chief of the Saudi English daily newspaper Arab News

Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, Law Professor at Yale University, Member of the Commission on International Religious Freedom

Ambassador Richard Murphy, Senior Fellow for the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Former Assistant Secretary of State (during the Reagan administration), Dan Benjamin, co-author of "The Age of Sacred Terror," Former Director for transnational threats National Security Council staff