wahhabism

Re: Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and al-Qaeda et al... IMO, the most fundamentally important thing to understand about Saudi Arabia's role in aiding, abetting, and assisting Al-Qaeda and its various offshoots is that the House of Saud's legitimacy as the ruling family of their country is based...

There is a documentary from the BBC by Adam Curtis http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02gyz6b/adam-curtis-bitter-lake which claims that during the Quincy Agreement (on Bitter Lake), the US was given access to Saudi Oil on the agreement that the then King/Sheik, and I presume successor...