Al Gosaibi, as the minister of industry and electricity, stated in 1980 that
American foreign policy was "self-doubt, isolative, and had a tendency to abdicate." During his tenure as Saudi ambassador to the United Kingdom and Ireland, he described
Osama bin Laden as "a human monster" in the immediate aftermath of the
9/11 attacks in the
BBC's HARDtalk interview. In 2002, he argued that the suicide bombers "died to honor God's word." He was an apparent critic of the Saudi conservative society. and is known for his liberal religious views. He was against terrorism and extremism and called for democratic reform in the Kingdom, although he argued that it needed to be a very gradual process. He was labeled by radicals as "a Westerner, infidel, secular and a hypocrite", and experienced a systematic and intense ideological campaign against him. However, when a significant financial crisis affected all countries, in January 2009 he warned Saudi firms against exploiting the crisis as a reason for terminating Saudi nationals and suggested them to terminate foreign workers in the country. ==Literary works and other writings==