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'''Salman Awdah''' is an influential | '''Salman Awdah''' is an influential Saudi Arabia|Saudi cleric,<ref name=Lynch2006-03-24>{{citation | ||
| url = http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/abuaardvark/2006/03/salman_alawdah_.html | | url = http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/abuaardvark/2006/03/salman_alawdah_.html | ||
| author = | | author = Marc Lynch | ||
| title = Putting Salman al-Awda on TV | | title = Putting Salman al-Awda on TV | ||
| date = 24 March 2006 | | date = 24 March 2006 | ||
| publisher = Abu Aardvark (Marc Lynch's blog)}}</ref> who was among the first to call for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from | | publisher = Abu Aardvark (Marc Lynch's blog)}}</ref> who was among the first to call for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia<ref name=Bergen>{{citation | ||
| author = | | author = Peter Bergen | ||
| title = The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al-Qaeda's Leader | | title = The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al-Qaeda's Leader | ||
| publisher = Free Press | year = 2006 | | publisher = Free Press | year = 2006 | ||
| isbn=0743278917 | | isbn=0743278917 | ||
}}, p. 149</ref> yet has also recently criticized | }}, p. 149</ref> yet has also recently criticized al-Qaeda.<ref name=JordT>{{citation | ||
| title = Leading Saudi cleric denounces Bin Laden | | title = Leading Saudi cleric denounces Bin Laden | ||
| journal = Jordan Times | | journal = Jordan Times | ||
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| url = http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=2302}}</ref> | | url = http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=2302}}</ref> | ||
He was imprisoned between 1994 and 1999 for his role in the Sahwa movement - "fiercely critical of the Saudi royal family, infuriated by the American role in the first | He was imprisoned between 1994 and 1999 for his role in the Sahwa movement - "fiercely critical of the Saudi royal family, infuriated by the American role in the first Gulf War, and one of the pioneers of the Islamist use of cassette sermons."<ref name=Lynch2006-03-24 /> After a 2003 terrorist attack in Riyadh, <ref>{{citation | ||
| url = http://www.merip.org/mero/mero111303.html | | url = http://www.merip.org/mero/mero111303.html | ||
| title = Violence and the Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia | | title = Violence and the Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia | ||
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 Salman Awdah is an influential Saudi Arabia|Saudi cleric,[1] who was among the first to call for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia[2] yet has also recently criticized al-Qaeda.[3] He was imprisoned between 1994 and 1999 for his role in the Sahwa movement - "fiercely critical of the Saudi royal family, infuriated by the American role in the first Gulf War, and one of the pioneers of the Islamist use of cassette sermons."[1] After a 2003 terrorist attack in Riyadh, [4] however, he relented his anti-jihad position and joined in the Saudi campaign against extremist opposition. References
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