Sleeping with the devil
by Robert Baer · first published 2003
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Examines the love-hate relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, describing how the royal family's support of a radical religious group helps keep them in power while fostering hatred of the West throughout Saudi society.
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I can recommend Bob Baer's book "Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_with_the_Devil Also the excellent Adam Curtis BBC documentary Bitter Lake - which is probably the best thing I've…
on “Document 17 Declassified – 9/11 attackers may have had links to Saudi Arabia [pdf]” ↗His 'Sleeping with the Devil' on the US-Saudi connection was pretty damning for its time too. No pun intended. http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Devil-Washington-Saudi-Crude/... I grew up in Saudi, and got my undergraduate degree…
on “Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf” ↗…allowances and the family grows at a near exponential rate since they all have multiple wives. I couldn't find any good sources on numbers but in a book about Saudi Arabia by former CIA operative Robert Baer "Sleeping with the Devil: How the US Sold it's Soul for Saudi Crude" [3] [4] I believe he estimated the current number to be about 60,000 (Wikipedia estimates 15,000 so I may be remembering that wrong [5]), aka an unsustainable…
on “Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China's Rich Kids” ↗What do you think of the books by Robert Baer e.g. "See No Evil" and "Sleeping with the Devil"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baer
on “Military Professional Reading Lists” ↗The Fall of the House of Saud The Atlantic. May 2003 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/05/the-fall... "A former CIA operative argues, in an article drawn form his new book, Sleeping With the Devil, that today's Saudi Arabia can't last much longer—and the social and economic fallout of its demise could be calamitous. Five extended families in the Middle East own about 60 percent of the world's…
on “Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China's Rich Kids” ↗Robert Bear, a former CIA case officer, wrote a book with this theme called "Sleeping With the Devil". He gives a history of the country, US relations with it, and argues that the situation in Saudi Arabia is not sustainable. Bear might be better known as the author of "Hear No Evil", a memoir of his…
on “Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse” ↗