[Urbane Guerrilla]

Rkzen, ask the rest of the bin Laden family if they can stand Osama. He's their remittance man, remember? Does anyone even know if he's recently cashed any of his checks?

And face it, the last people the House of Saud is willing to piss off -- is us. The same House of Saud has taken five thousand or so al-Q symps and operatives right off the table, and pretty permanently, I gather. We are, I think, duly grateful. Moving against these enemies within their own border seems to have worked fairly well, too; they've not taken many hits since, partly from taking enemies down by arrest or killing, partly from choking off the financial conduits these people were maintaining. Terrorism only looks easy and cheap; it's actually difficult and quite expensive to do. It would seem that terrorists, in common with conventional military forces, have ruled out the option of passing out bribes to defeat a foe...