During that time, uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt had ousted longtime autocratic rulers, touching off protests in Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria. In Yemen, Al Qaeda would gain a greater foothold and remain active amid the chaos of war and famine. Or it could also be that bin Laden was shielding his relatives from Al Qaeda intelligence. Bin Laden imagines that Saudi Arabia would soon feel the “tsunami” of change sweeping the region. The late Al Qaeda chief held Saudi citizenship until the early 1990s, before he was stripped of his nationality by the government.

Source: Libya Today November 03, 2017 11:37 UTC