Sophisticated attacks by an Islamic State branch in Saudi Arabia show the jihadist group is better established there than previously suspected, and that fueled by anger over Arab civil wars, Riyadh's militancy problem is not going away.
A sustained militant campaign could undermine stability in the world's top oil exporter and birthplace of Islam, one of the few major Arab states that has so far mostly avoided the political tumult and civil war shaking the region.
"Any country that experiences two consecutive large bombings has a problem. It's not supposed to happen, so there clearly is a new network that the intelligence services are not completely in control of," said Thomas Hegghammer, author of Jihad in Saudi Arabia.
WNU Editor: For as long as I can remember Saudi Arabia has always been threatened by Islamic radicals ... but the kingdom has always been able to suppress it. But the Middle East has changed radically in the past five years .... wars and conflicts that are producing millions of refugees are now the rule, and as a result the old rules and assumptions no longer apply. Will Saudi Arabia survive this .... the answer is yes .... but expect a lot of turmoil before all of this "war fever" dies out in the Middle East.
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"Will Saudi Arabia survive this .... the answer is yes ...."
We'll know the answer to that in the next twelve months. My guess is no.
So the Saudis are not going to fund any more mega-mosques in the US?
But the Pakistanis will. it will cost millions of dollars but they will continue. It is the reason the need foreign aid.
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