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U.S.' Close Ties With Saudis Questioned After 9-11 Attack.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(NATIONAL ISSUE)
Byline: PETER BENESH
Just before he was beheaded in 1641, Sir Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, quoted Psalm 146:3: "Put not your faith in princes." He had trusted King Charles I to stop his execution.
Since Sept. 11, Americans have begun to question their trust in the princes and other members of Saudi Arabia's ruling royal elite.
The House of Saud hasn't fully supported America's war on terror. Now, some say, it's time America broke free from the Saudi regime.
The U.S. doesn't need Saudi oil, experts say. The U.S. doesn't need a military base in Saudi Arabia. And it doesn't need the ruling Saud family.
"Saudi Arabia's royal family . . . is a corrupt, totalitarian regime at sharp variance with America's most cherished values," wrote senior fellow Doug Bandow in a recent Cato Institute report. "Saudi Arabia has seldom aided, and often hamstrung, U.S. attempts to combat terrorism. It supports the extreme Wahhabi form of Islam. . . . Saudi money has even gone to the fundamentalist . . . madrassas, recruiting grounds for Osama bin Laden."
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