Fahd of Saudi Arabia
According to Ahmad Thomson, a London-based attorney testifying for the defense at the trial of Khaled al-Fawwaz, the Advice and Reform Committee was designed to promote “peaceful and constructive reform” in Saudi Arabia. However, prosecutors described the organization as an Al Qaeda front. Bin Laden may have formed the organization with the intent to seek asylum in the United Kingdom after King Fahd of Saudi Arabia revoked his citizenship, but the British Home Office rapidly issued an exclusion order barring him from entering the country.