Toto, you ain't in Kansas anymore.
There is no such thing as our idea of a government.. The country actually functions the same way a well-run crime family runs. One Prince with a government post may well be funding terror. Another with two kids at Arizona State, may well be our "friend," and have an important government post himself. Both may have 4 wives at a time and upwards of 50 children, each male with his own piece'o'the family action, down to a filling station, or a fried chicken franchise, all part of the 'family' racket. They are densely intermarried and suffer from various birth defects ... e.g., so many congenital kidney problems that every street corner strip mall has a dialysis storefront!
Every Prince has a piece'o'the action, has a crew, and kicks a piece upstairs. There is constant jockeying to stay in power and improve one's position in the Royal Family. The KSA is not really a country. It is the personal estate of the House of Saud ... Saudi Arabia.
Quite true.
But some members of that House are in control to varying degrees of the government. As stated, I’m perfectly willing to assume rogue members of the government or House of Saud knew of or contributed to the attacks. I just haven’t seen any evidence the government was involved.
If you have some, I’m interested in seeing it. There are, after all, close on 30M Saudis, many of them, including many not in the royal family, very wealthy. I just don’t think it’s realistic to assume any bad things done by citizens of SA have “the government” behind it. Especially when the number one goal of AQ is to massacre the royals.