The Fall of the House of Saud

This is a chapter from Robert Baer's book Sleeping with the Devil. Robert Baer is a former CIA station chief who worked in the middle east for close to 21 years. It's a great article giving some insight into how dangerous the Saudi monarchy really is, and how the quest for cheap oil has led America into the hands of the corrupt House of Saud.

"Americans have long considered Saudi Arabia the one constant in the Arab Middle East—a source of cheap oil, political stability, and lucrative business relationships. But the country is run by an increasingly dysfunctional royal family that has been funding militant Islamic movements abroad in an attempt to protect itself from them at home. A former CIA operative argues, in an article drawn form his new book, Sleeping With the Devil, that today's Saudi Arabia can't last much longer—and the social and economic fallout of its demise could be calamitous"

The Fall of the House of Saud

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