in search of al qaeda homethe journeyinside the tribal
areasground zero: pakistandiscussion saad al-fagih  A Saudi
Arabian dissident living in exile in London, Dr. Saad al-Fagih
heads the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia. He tells
FRONTLINE that the Saudi regime's claims that they have
eradicated Al Qaeda within the kingdom are false and that every
Saudi is a potential bin Laden. He also says that sources in
Saudi Arabia have told him that the bulk of Al Qaeda leaders are
alive and probably hiding in eastern Afghanistan and western
Pakistan. This interview was conducted on Aug. 13, 2002.  saad
al-fagih photo saad al-fagih photo  ... Where is Al Qaeda on the
ground?  That question is very interesting, because Al Qaeda
does not work like a hierarchy. Al Qaeda regards itself as a
college or university, which have people coming into courses and
then graduated. Then they settle down somewhere geographically,
somewhere socially, somewhere mentally or intellectually, and
somewhere in terms of proficien[cy] and