[Old 300]

He says the royals hate all those groups, but since the bulk of the population is susceptible to the philosophies of the radicals they have to turn a public blind eye or fear strikes and uprisings.

They may not like them, but during the main mosque hostage crisis of 1979 they agreed to fund radical Islam around the planet in exchange for a fatwa against the zealots holding the Kaba. The CIA-directed attack on the zealots holding the mosque is actually the initial inspiration for the young bin Laden, whose family had built some of the structures around the mosque and inside it.

[ejonesie22]

And we have been dealing with him ever since, but that is no reason to chuck our needed resources to the whims of the regional mad men and tribe leaders.