"al-Qaeda believes that the regime...is gradually destroying Islam under the banner of a false Islam."
Oh. The. Irony.
Wake me up when the jihadists actually take out a member of the Royal Family. The Family and the Wahhabist clerics have been in cahoots for years. It all comes a-cropper when a Prince gets taken out. The clerics know this, the jihadists know this. You can blow up private property belonging to business interests of the princes, take a few foreigners out and a few underlings, but you don't actually take out the Family.
This is classic misdirection.