[Vigilanteman]

Kudos to Max Singer for publishing this. I've done buiness in the Eastern Province and more than 90% of the workforce is imported. The 10% who are not are either the bureaucracy (ranging from customs agents to religious police) or those on the lowest strata economically such as road workers and date farmers.

An independent eastern province would essentially mean the end of Saudi oil wealth although, technically small amounts (less than 5%) are produced outside of the Eastern Province.

Singer also neglected to point out that 14 of the 15 Saudi hijackers got their visas from the American Counsulate in Jeddah (near Mecca), the 15th from Riyhad, the aboriginal homeland to the House of Saud. Not one got a visa in Dahman, in the Eastern province and might have been exposed had they tried, because a good share of the natives there cannot stand the Wahabis.

[Savage Beast]

Sounds like these people might like living in a U.S. territory or protectorate--kinda like Puerto Rico--or the old Panama Canal Zone.