The Saudi Hate Machine By Erick Stakelbeck InTheNationalInterest.com | December 19, 2003 In October, at a counter-terrorism conference hosted by the Royal United Services Institute in London, Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Great Britain, announced that Saudi security forces had recently “re-educated” 3,500 radical preachers. While Al-Faisal’s claim was impressive, he failed to address the specifics of this apparently sweeping program, leaving one to wonder whether the Kingdom’s two most notorious clerics, Safar Al-Hawali and Salman Al-‘Auda, were targeted. Known as the “Awakening Sheikhs” due to their powerful influence on young Arab Muslims, Al-Hawali and Al-‘Auda have spent...