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To: NickSE who wrote (16031)	11/13/2003 9:43:34 AM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793670

Saudi rulers may be swept aside theaustralian.news.com.au .....Similarly, the religious conservatives have become so fanatical that in effect, even if not in intent, they threaten royal rule. Their indoctrination of Wahabi Islamic teachings is so extreme that they create a sympathetic environment for terrorism. Even the Saudi people can no longer be bought off because the Saudi state can no longer afford it. In the 1990s, Saudi Arabia's population grew by 2.8 per cent a year while its per capita gross domestic product declined by 0.5 per cent a year. Apart from the oil industry, there is no substantial economic modernisation in Saudi Arabia. It may well be that the Saudi rulers are heading the way of the shah of Iran -- to be violently overthrown and replaced by a far more radical and fundamentalist regime. The Saudi education system has been so toxic for so long that instant democracy would almost certainly produce success for extremists.....