What part of it was directed against the Saudi royal family?
Osama bin Laden began his whole quest as directed against the Saudi Royal Family. His main goal was to overthrow this regime. And then he moved philosophically to the natural conclusion that the people that are supporting the regime are the American military, and I will get much more resonance for my message if I were to attack the American military, and therefore, Al Khobar happened. And in the incident of attacking the American military, I detected for the first time in Saudi Arabia a certain amount of sympathy with this act which contrasts very sharply with the previous attitude of that same Saudi population toward the presence of Americans amongst them which has been a fact for sixty years. Not to mention the presence of four million expatriates of all kinds and nationalities. So the presence of foreigners was not an issue. But Osama bin Laden attacking the American in the context of the Americans becoming identified as the primary supporters of Israel — and of course eventually a
