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.
Without any evidence at all, Sherm, I 'feel' quite sure that certain factions within the Saudi government are tasked with keeping the peace with AQ by any means necessary, ranging from violent to financial options.
The House of Saud is always involved in a sort of 4-dimensional chess game with us, each other, and the rest of the Muslim world. I cannot pretend to understand it. It's a bit like the town poker game always going on in the back room of someplace to which we are not invited ...we just know the game is going on!