1. And this has challenged the Saudi royal family to make a grand gesture appealing to the American and the Saudi consciences at the same time. 2. Bin Laden has been exiled by his home country because of his opposition to the Saudi royal family and the US military presence in Saudi Arabia. 3. Bin Laden is from a wealthy Saudi family. 4. Bin Laden attacks the Saudi royal family for allowing American troops on Saudi soil and his strict fundamentalist brand of Islam has support among some Saudis. 5. Bin Laden, who had benefited from contracts handed out by the Saudi royal family, began suggesting that the king should be overthrown. 6. Bin Laden is the scion of a rich family whose father was a favored contractor for the Saudi royal family. 7. Bin Laden is the scion of a wealthy Saudi family who prosecutors say leads a group, Al Qaeda, that finances Islamic terrorism around the world. 8. A descendant of the Muslim prophet Mohammed, Hussein is from a Saudi family installed by western forces after World War I. 9. Alarmed at the intrusion of the soldiers, radical Islamic preachers attacked the Saudi ruling family. 10. But the Suhartos and the Saudi ruling family still have a common problem. |