For readings, I'm not sure, Thomas. I'd suggest a general search for articles on Saudi Arabia. What got me thinking this was watching a lengthy documentary on Saudi Arabia and the Wahabbi movement. It had quite a few interviews with a Saudi prince who is the ambassador to the USA, and he naturally tried to put everything the Saudis are doing in a good light...but I started to get this really creepy feeling. They have the most amazing airbase facilities. They also have a country that is as potentially dangerous as a box of gunpowder with a lit fuse. Then the whole thing just came to me...maybe Bin Laden is NOT a "black sheep" who went renegade at all...maybe he's a trusted agent of the Saudis with full (but secret) backing. When I realized from the film what a crucial role they are performing in funding the Wahabbi movement all over the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, wherever they can find poor and desperate people to convert, then I started to see the picture.

I have not heard anyone on the TV suggest this theory. It's my own at this point, I guess.

- LH