I don't know whether a link has been offered for this article yet or not. But the article is one I'm recommending all my friends read. So, perhaps it won't hurt to link it again, if someone has already done so.
It's an article by Seymour Hersh in the latest issue of The New Yorker on the serious instability of the Saudi regime and other matters. It's drawn from intercepts of telephone conversations of the Saudi royal family and from conversations with CIA members. On that point, Hersh has incredible sources in the US intelligence community, particularly the CIA, and can often be read as a bulletin board for the views of certain segments.
It's quite clear these folks are terribly worried about the stability issue. If this is at all accurate, it looks to me as if we should be as well.
If I were David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, I would have made this the weekly headline space, and given Hersh as much space as he wished.
I'm not including the full text, only posting the link, because I assume The New Yorker wishes readers to, at the very minimum, go to its website to read the article.
John
KING'S RANSOM
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
How vulnerable are the Saudi royals?
Issue of 2001-10-22
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