(New York Times) William Grimes - The U.S.-Saudi connection is probably the one that Americans would most like to sever, if it could be done without raising gasoline prices. In Saudi Arabia Exposed, British journalist John R. Bradley calls the Saudi royals "perhaps the most corrupt family the world has ever known." The House of Saud and the religious establishment, fired by the puritanical form of Islam known as Wahhabism, hold sway in the central region, al-Najd; elsewhere rifts and tensions abound.
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