House of Saud and Al-Qa`idah

The story of the assassination attempt on Muhammad Bin Nayif is still developing. Today, Saudi media released an audio tape of a phone conversation between the prince and the assassin. But the conversation reveals a degree of familiarity, nay intimacy, between the prince and the assassin. It was so bizarre especially when the prince told the Al-Qa`idah member that "you are our kids." Al-Arabiyya TV (the private station of King Fahd's brother-in-law) realized that while they are airing the tape they are also unwittingly revealing the relations between the prince and those Bin Ladenites, and the able Syrian broadcaster, Zeina Al-Yaziji, even asked a Saudi journalist to explain this intimacy of the phone conversation. He answered by wishing people a happy Ramadan.