Journal broter's Journal: Trouble in Saudi Arabia?
While the situation in Iraq remains unstable, Bush is expected to announce the end of the US operation in Afghanistan dispite growing military action in the south against US and current government positions as well as NGO workers in the country, and rumours that Al Qaeda is regrouping there; US-Saudi seem to be weakening. The removal of US forces from Saudi air bases in the northern part of the country, a class action law suit by 9/11 victims' families alledging Saudi culpabillity, and the Saudi support for internal and international fundamentalist religious groups have put an unpresidented strain on the two countries.
There is mounting evidence that the US action against Iraq has bolstered bin Laden's support in Saudi Arabia. Some members of the US administration have suggested that American armed forces should take control of the Saudi oil fields if the royal family loses power.
Is Saudi Arabi in the queue of US millitary action items?
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