[annalex]

Can you make [the Saudis] eradicate financial support of jihads in the Balkans and Causasus by private persons?

Not completely, but they will try. Arafat won't even try, and he has promised to. You bet there is no comparison, that is my point.

[madrussian]

I suspect the Saudis would have "tried" in the same way Arafat "tries". "There is no comparison" remark was about the nature of relationship, not characterization of the people. As far as I am concerned, the Saudi individuals have contributed to jihads more than relatively secular Iraq. "What-if" scenarios are just that: speculations.