Saad al-Faqih

Saad al-Faqih (also al-Fagih) is a surgeon and Saudi opposition leader living in the United Kingdom; he heads the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA). According to Peter Bergen, he favors a conservative Islamic state, but free of corruption and with a sensible economy. Al-Fagih calls his opposition group the.

The United States designated him as a terrorist in 2004, froze his assets and that of his organization for providing financial support to al-Qaeda. Specifically, he was associated with Khaled al Fawwaz, who has acted as Osama bin Laden's press represetative; "according to information available to the U.S. Government, al-Faqih and al Fawwaz shared an office in the late 1990s...Following the 1998 East African embassy bombings, al Fawwaz was arrested in the United Kingdom under an extradition request from the United States. At the U.S. trial of the East African embassy bombers, prosecutors provided evidence that al-Faqih paid for a satellite phone that al Fawwaz passed on to UBL, who allegedly used it to help carry out the attacks. According to information available to the U.S. Government, al-Faqih was also associated with al Qaida member and fugitive Abu Musab al-Suri, a.k.a. Mustafa Nasar." The U.S. said MIRA's website (no longer active) with "disclaimers warning users to not attribute postings on MIRA message boards to al Qaida, information available to the U.S. and UK Governments shows that the messages are intended to provide ideological and financial support to al-Qaida affiliated networks and potential recruits.  AQ-affiliated author, Lewis Attiyatullah, whose statements have been published on MIRA's website, has been directly associated with Al-Faqih for several years."

During the Afghanistan War (1978-1992), he served as a surgeon in Peshawar, Pakistan.