"According to the book, 'House of Bush, House of Saud' by Craig Unger, on page 3 we read, 'For decades the House of Saud had somehow maintained control of Saudi Arabia and the world's richest oil reserves by performing a seemingly untenable balancing act with two parties who had vowed to destroy each other.
On the one hand, the House of Saud was an Islamic theocracy whose power grew out of the royal family's alliance with Wahhabi fundamentalism, a strident and puritanical Islamic sect that provided a fertile breeding ground for a global network of terrorist urging a violent jihad against the United States.
On page 83, he states: 'Since many Wahhabis saw the United States as the Great Satan, that means the Saudis had vital relationship essential to their survival - a double marriage of sorts - with partners who were mortal enemies."
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