BBC Correspondent Frank Gardner, critically injured in a militant attack there nine years ago, returned to Saudi Arabia on his first trip back since the incident. The murderous insurgency that took so many lives here in the mid-2000s, including that of my cameraman Simon Cumbers, has been largely defeated, its militants killed, arrested or driven over the border into the desert wildernesses of Yemen. The article describes the experiences of Mr Gardner and the people he meets on his trip through Saudi Arabia.
