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21 " Even the interior minister, Na’if, had to admit that Saudi Arabia had a problem with Islamic militants. In November 2002 he said, “All our problems come from the Muslim Brotherhood. We have given too much support to this group. The Muslim Brotherhood has destroyed the Arab world.” Na’if went on to accept, at least minimally, Saudi Arabia’s responsibility for militant Islam. "
― Robert B. Baer , Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
22 " That’s why we in the West—Washington, D.C., in particular—have to face up to our part in cultivating the virus that has infected Saudi Arabia. And that is why we must consider putting to sleep the host, the House of Sa’ud, if it can’t or won’t cure itself. "
23 " But I’ve spent enough years in the Middle East to know that in a place like Saudi Arabia, things flow naturally toward their most combustible mix. "
24 " 95 percent of educated Saudis between the ages of twenty-five and forty-one support bin Laden. "
25 " a democratic election in Saudi Arabia would bring to power a militant Islamic government more hostile than Khomeini’s Iran. "
26 " Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Syria all backed the February 1996 coup attempt and were continuing to undermine the Qatari government. "
27 " One report described how on June 22, 1998, forty Chechens were quietly brought to a secret military camp located seventy-five miles southeast of Riyadh. Over the next four months, they were trained in explosives, hand-to-hand combat, and small weapons. A lot of time was set aside for indoctrination into Wahhabi Islam. Salman, the governor of Riyadh and the full brother of King Fahd, was the camp’s sponsor. "