What happens in Saudi Arabia is of critical importance to the United States thanks to America's dependence on foreign oil. Five extended families in the Middle East own about 60 percent of the world's oil. The Saud family, which rules Saudi Arabia, controls more than a third of that amount. The House of Saud is therefore, the fulcrum upon which the global economy teeters.

The Saudi royal family has had to placate the Wahabbi fundamentalists and to literally bribe them to keep from being overthrown

The real irony is this – democratic reforms are probably America's worst-case scenario. Recent limited elections permitted by Abdullah demonstrated this danger. It revealed that if truly free elections were held in Saudi Arabia, America's most important source of imported oil would be handed over to a democratically elected core of devout Wahabbi-following Islamic fundamentalists. And they are the principle source of al-Qaida's manpower and funding. It would, in effect, hand over the strategic control of the global economy to Osama bin-Laden and his cohorts.

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