...but I have found yet another article that holds that certain highly placed Saud Family members in the Saudia Arabia are in touch with Bin Laden and support Bin Laden.
The article is from a Greek newspaper [i]Kathimerini[/i] and may be found at:
[url]http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=102375[/url]
"As Western security agencies intensify their search for possible cells of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda terrorist group, reliable Arab diplomatic sources in Athens said yesterday that the network could have a very different and far more dangerous dimension. They claim that bin Laden's network is not made up only of illegal, dissident groups [u]but has managed to infiltrate the military, the secret services and even government circles of Arab states, including the two leading countries of the Arab world, Saudi Arabia and Egypt[/u].
"According to these sources, [u]the heart of bin Laden's network is not in Afghanistan but in the country of his birth, Saudi Arabia.[/u] It is well known that bin Laden, a member of the Saudi economic elite, enjoyed close ties with the royal family during the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He clashed with the family when King Fahd allied himself with the United States in the Gulf War and after the bomb attack against US forces in Riyadh in November 1995.
"What is not known is that bin Laden never severed his ties with the strongest member of the Saudi royal family, Prince Abdullah, who, in effect, is ruling the kingdom as Fahd has been confined to a wheelchair. Abdullah, the crown prince, is not favored by Washington because of his disapproval of the US military presence but also because of his strong anti-Israeli position on the Palestinian issue. Well-informed diplomatic sources of another Arab country say that Abdullah kept in touch with bin Laden through the Saudi secret service chief, Prince Turki, who disappeared in late August."
'Curiouser and curiouser!' said Alice.
Eric The(MadHatter)Hun[>]:)]