Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser

Al-Nasser is a leader of the Saudi Hezbollah. He was one of the main strategists of the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996. Nineteen U.S. airmen were killed when a huge truck bomb went off outside
their housing complex in Saudi Arabia. The U.S. military had learned something since 1983 in Beirut.
A sentry noticed the truck and began an evacuation of the building. In addition, concrete barriers deflected the blast from the lower floors of the building and probably prevented its collapse.
The motive of this attack was to remove U.S. military from Saudi soil. It worked. Just like in 1983 in Beirut, within a few months of the bombing, the airmen were relocated out of Saudi Arabia.
Al-Nasser is at large.

In Saudi Arabia, a special police force, the Mutaween, regulates public behavior. If I lived in there , I could wear pants inside the walls of my home but not outside them. If I lived there, I could be asked by the Mutaween to prove that any man I was with in public was either my husband or another close relative otherwise I might face charges of prostitution. In June 1996, a bomb in Saudi Arabia at the Khobar Towers seemed to me to be a part of that country’s normal extremism. That month, I found myself the senior designer of FOX Sports Online, a woman in a man’s world. I learned important facts during the NBA Finals like that Michael Jordan was number 23 on the Chicago Bulls. It was a whole new language. It took me a long time to figure out that my co-workers were not all gifted comedians but were simply quoting that week’s episode of The Simpsons.