Saudi Arabia, the Gulf and the New Regional Landscape | Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Dr. Guido Steinberg (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik) spoke on domestic security in Saudi Arabia, warning that if he was an adviser to the Saudi authorities, he would tell them to protect the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina against an attack. Steinberg’s prescient warning was issued on June 21. Indeed and alas, an Islamic State suicide bomber struck the holy site just two weeks later, on July 4.