Nawaf Obaid
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Oct 16, 2026
Nada AlTaherHOST
And the consequences of that are what we're seeing today.
Nada AlTaherHOST
To dissect everything that's been happening, I spoke to Nawaf Obaid, a senior research fellow at the Department of War Studies at King's College London, who also used to be an advisor to the Saudi
Nawaf ObaidGUEST
Arabian government.
Nada AlTaherHOST
I want to ask you, how did we even get to this point where the Houthis are able to launch repeated attacks deep inside Saudi Arabia, on the capital, on airports, major casualties? How did we even get to this point?
Rebecca KesbyHOST
We'll try and establish it.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
But, uh, to get a Saudi perspective on this attack at Riyadh Airport and the wider security threat to Saudi Arabia at the moment, as John was mentioning, I've been speaking to Nawaf Obaid, who's a senior research fellow at King's College London.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
He's also a former advisor to the Saudi government.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
That's between 2004, 2007.
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Nawaf ObaidGUEST
Just yesterday, a supertanker hit with the consequences that you, that you all reported last night.
Nawaf ObaidGUEST
It hit a major m- Iranian, uh, deployed mine on the southern, um, um, exit of the Strait of Hormuz, and this is exactly what Crown Prince, uh, Mohammed bin Salman was trying to avoid.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
That's Nawaf Obaid there, who's a senior research fellow at King's College London, and, uh, as I mentioned, he did advise the Saudi government between 2004 and 2007.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
Um, we're gonna be returning to this story later in the program.
Walter HartleyHOST
The Houthi movement in Yemen has claimed it, on the weapon the Saudi authorities have not said.
Walter HartleyHOST
A fellow at King's College London, Nawaf Obaid, says the early assessment appears to be a ballistic missile, and we pass that along as one analyst's reading, rather than an official finding.
Walter HartleyHOST
It is being described as the worst attack on the kingdom in a decade, and it was the third on that one airport in a week.
Walter HartleyHOST
On Thursday, an attack there killed three Saudi citizens, among them a pilot.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
Well, earlier this morning, the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, arrived in Washington, DC for talks with the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
So what does Saudi Arabia need from the US? It's a question I put to Nawaf Obaid, former advisor to the Saudi government and now senior fellow at the Department of War Studies at King's College London.
Nawaf ObaidGUEST
What is needed is very technical geospatial support, twenty-four hours geospatial reconnaissance in terms of getting a perfect battlefield picture, understanding, uh, the formations of the enemy, where the allied forces are, because remember, this is a coalition.
Nawaf ObaidGUEST
It's part of a joint forces command.
Rob MathesonHOST
Okay, let's bring in our panel of guests.
Rob MathesonHOST
Joining us from London is Nawaf Obaid.
Rob MathesonHOST
He's a senior research fellow at King's College London.
Rob MathesonHOST
He's also a former advisor to the Saudi government.