Bush’s Saudi problem just got worse

“US Vows to Find Saudi Bombers” is the headline on a BBC story about the Riyadh bombings. But the difficulty is that Saudi Arabia has more Bin Laden sympathisers than the rest of the entire Arab world. And the Saudi royals are, er, somewhat ambivalent in their attitudes to ol’ Bin Liner himself. In fact, some of them have been bankrolling Islamic terrorism for decades. Most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis. Saudi Arabia poses a much bigger threat to the US than did Iraq. Will we now see a new ‘coalition of the willing’ to sort out this sordid, medieval fiefdom? Hmmm…