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Saudi Neglect?

Not good, but not surprising:

The United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia charged today that some weeks before the car bombs of Monday night, American intelligence operatives picked up signs of an imminent terrorist attack and urged the Saudi government to improve security at foreign compounds here, but got little or no response.

And, there is something wrong when a rise in "regligious scholars" equals the rise of terrorism:

A Saudi opposition figure, Saad al-Faqih, who heads the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, based in London, and who has no ties to Al Qaeda, said in a telephone interview today that support for the terrorist organization was growing in the kingdom, in part because of the emergence of "a new generation of religious scholars."

Source:U.S. Ambassador Says Saudis Didn't Heed Security Request