[Mike Darancette]

This is the first I've heard of any plan to carve up Saudi Arabia, and that sounds like the rantings of someone who is very paranoid.

That was basically the gist of the July 10 Rand Powerpoint presentation in which a not so thinly veiled suggestion was made that the Princes (and Saddam) could be replaced.

[Dog Gone]

Thanks for the link. The US quickly disavowed the Rand study, but it surely is the one that the Saudis are reacting to.

Their reaction isn't terribly surprising. Nobody is going to react favorably to a recommendation that their nation be forcibly dissected.