Saudi Arabia, as a society, is totally duplicitious.
Saudi money has all along been involved with Al Queda.
Listen to a Saudi Wahabi cleric at any school or radio/TV program, or newspaper in Saudi Arabia and you don't hear anything different than you do from Osama - the "infidels" of the "west", "the Jews" control the U.S. Congress, the U.S. media, etc., etc., Jerusalem in its entirety must be recaptures for Islam, a truly good Muslim must live in a Muslim ruled society, etc., etc. etc.... ad infinitum.
Saudi money is derived predominately from oil but has been invested in dozens of other industries and hundreds of countries around the world over the last 30 years - $$billions and $$billions.
That has made the 25,000 or so members of the Saudi royal family and thousands more of their Saudi business partners extragavently wealthy.
Internally, those thousands are as fractured in their attitudes towards the west as the U.S. Congress is in its positions on any number of topics.
So, the Saudi Royals who have the official reigns of government can take the public position they do towards the west, while thousands beneath them can have totally different opinions and the financial means and international connections to independently match their opinions with actions - financial actions, predominately (they don't want to get their own hands dirty).
And even officially, it was Saudi money sent to Pakistan that funded the Taliban and it is Saudi money that built and supports the radical Wahabi Madrassas for the millions of poor young men in Pakistan, and in Asia, Africa, now Kosovo, England, France and even, yes even here in the U.S.
And, with or without funding, it is the radical Islam of the Wahabis that create the political Islam that leads young Muslim men to become future foot soldiers for the terrorists.
The Saudis, as a society, are not our friends.
Even when and where the Royals work with us on specific Al Queda terrorists, it is only to save their own necks when Al Queda upsets them internally. You can bet, if Al Queda would lay off its attacks inside Saudi Arabia, we would probably have zero co-operation with them on specific terrorists who we believed were in their country.
If Saudi Arabia never reforms, the devils pact between the Royals and the Wahabi clerics will eventually collapse in open civil war between the Royals and money men that have always backed Al Queda and the Royals at the top who still think they are in charge.
The best thing we could do for ourselves is to advance that possibility so that we can then deal with its outcome - either a group of Royals ready and willing to become real moderates, having defeated the Wahabi-cleric-backed Royals and others that fund Al Queda, or a new Taliban style regime to which we can then consign the Saudi penninsula to the stone age.
Frankly, if and when the madman in Iran can ever be overthrown by his own people and if they were to join with a democratic Iraq, then Islam would have its own civil war with us siding with the Shia of Iran and Iraq.
Keep it up Saudi Royals, you will push us all there yet.
The entire War on Terror and the existence of al Quaeda is largely a Saudi export of their own internal conflicts. Secondly, they aggressively export Wahabbism around the world, and most mosques here in the USA are funded with Saudi money. Take Saudi money and you get Wahabbi imams too.