The Bin Laden family has direct connections to the Saudi royals. Remember, the Bin Laden construction company builds/built a number of Saudi palaces, housing in Mecca, etc.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bin_Laden_Group
http://www.rense.com/general19/business.htm
And, the same company had a hand in building the WTC:
http://kentroversypapers.blogspot.com/2007/04/bin-laden-construction-company-worked.html
It is also now in telecom. And other things......
Someone in Washington aught to call Putin and ask him if he’s available to run in 2012. Apparently, the natural born thing is out and we really need a leader with some testosterone...
And most of the 'support' Bin Laden got was designed to keep him out of Saudi Arabia. That's how he ended up in Iraq.