The Saudi Trap
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A trip through the kingdom reveals what really needs to be done in the
war on terror
By Fareed Zakaria
Newsweek
June 28 issue - The images of a beheaded Paul Johnson are gruesome,
but for Saudi Arabia, it has been more than a year of grim images. It
started on May 12, 2003, when three cars packed with bombs exploded in
a residential compound in Riyadh, killing 35 people and wounding 200.
Since then, there have been at least 20 terror attacks or clashes
between Saudi police and Islamic militants. Most brazenly, four gunmen
entered a residential compound for oil-industry workers in Khobar last
month and killed 22 people. Does this turmoil mark the beginning of a
civil war in Saudi Arabia? Could jihadis get control of the most
powerful oil-producing nation and use its vital resource as a weapon
against the modern world they so despise?
Fareed Zakaria
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