Bin Laden is not a Saudi (and I am Chinese). Writing in Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat (the mouthpiece of Prince Salman), `Abdur-Rahman Ar-Rashid denies that Bin Laden is Saudi. He says that Bin Laden should be considered half-Syrian because of his mother's background. He added that Sweden should be blamed for producing the ideology of Wahhabism and not Saudi Arabia.