Al-Qaida defies Saudi Arabia, recruit its members via the Internet

Saudi analysists said that the resignation of the US secretary of state Colin Powell is presumed not to affect Washington's commitment for Saudi reforms because this is a policy that serves its interests in fighting terrorism.

Qinan al-Ghamidi the columnist in the Saudi daily al-Watan said " Powell was implementing a set American strategy and not mere thoughts of his own that he gave to the Saudis."

On the other hand, members of al-Qaida organization defied the campaign launched against them and their losses of senior leaders in Saudi Arabia. They made use of the Internet to recruit new members in the birth place of the organization's leader Osama Bin Laden. The group continues to publish regularly two widely-read magazines despite the killing of their senior contributors including Issa Bin Saad al-Oushin, one of the chief editors of "Sawt al-Jihad" magazine.