THE GUARDIAN REPORTS that Saudi Arabia’s ruling family is in an undeclared war, and that British officials are worried that it may fall to factions sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

Perhaps we should hope for that, since I believe that those factions wield considerable unacknowledged influencee already. This would get it out in the open, and allow corrective action.

UPDATE: Hmm. We have seen the untimely deaths of a couple of important Saudi princes recently. And the not-always-reliable Debka is reporting an assassination attempt aimed at King Fahd on July 14.