I’m waiting for all the evidence to come in on this before I weigh in. The saudis are our allies in WOT you know?
Yep. The same Saudi's that want to keep their lifestyles are themselves killing jihadi's that threaten the kingdom.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?
ID=10718
excerpt:
During the summer, Saudi security zoomed in on what it identified as al-Qaeda cells. Firefights broke out in several cities between the police and the terrorists. Caches of weapons were found. A number of al-Qaeda members were arrested and jailed, but not transferred to the U.S. The Saudi Government wanted to draw a line between shrinking al-Qaeda’s influence inside the Kingdom and fully joining an international campaign against Wahhabi Islamism. But this attitude was a casus belli in bin Laden’s eyes.
Then al-Qaeda decided the Saudis had gone too far. One day, Crown Prince Abdallah made a declaration of war against the “clerics” who protected al-Qaeda and legitimized violence. He called them “intruders” and “enemies of the true path.” It was seen, by al-Qaeda, as declaration of war.
At the end of the summer, bin Laden circulated more than one memorandum, closer to a fatwa than a legal opinion, to refute Prince Abdallah’s criticism of the clerics. The storm was brewing. By October, winds of jihad were blowing.Osama bin Laden aired his audiotape on al-Jazeera television, ordering his Mujahedeen to attack infidels around the Middle East on October 19. The Qatari-based satellite TV network not only broadcast the “State of Jihad” address, but played it all day long, and assembled intellectuals to explain it better to the populace.
The rest is current news. Last Thursday, Saudi security elements pursued alleged al-Qaeda militants in Mecca. In a few months, more than one terrorist was located in the holiest shrine of Islam and killed. Arms such as AK-47s and RPGs were found. The last time Mecca tasted violence was in 1979 when dozens of radicals were crushed by the Saudi security. At that time, hundred militants were killed, but no one followed up on the story. But this time, al-Jazeera is here to stir the emotions. And it immediately did...