He really would have had too many sides gunning for him to remain alive. The Saudi royals, the thousands of perfumed princes who aren’t wahabbi would have been the first to want to see him annihilated.
How would they live without the trappings of their wealth? Exchange a gold-plated pistol for a sword, a garage full of top of the range vehicles for a camel?
The modern faction want to be like the other prosperous and modern nations on the Peninsula.
The OBL double was to keep the dream alive for the fanatics.
Saudi Arabia is being prevented from joining the present century by the salafists. There’s an internal war going on in that country.
The crown of the Sauds sits uneasy.