I want this book. (You can get it from Amazon.)
Update: Looking through the book’s site linked above, there are PDF versions of declassified Western intelligence documents on the siege. Some interesting examples are this US embassy in Cairo report of how Mubarak, vice-president at the time, ordered al-Ahram to downplay news of the siege that was going to be on the top banner headline or how Hassan II sent his most vital aide at the time, Moulay Hafid Alaoui, to Jeddah with commandos from the Gendarmerie Royale to be put at King Khalid’s disposal. H2 was ready send several hundred more commandos, in the grand tradition of Moroccan brawn working for Saudi Arabia.
wow, i bought the book yesterday as soon as it was released…TOUR DE FORCE…i did nothing but read it yesterday…halfway through…if you didn’t hate al-saud already, you will after reading this.
Aaarrgh can’t wait, your comment is torture. And I hate the al-Sauds already!
just finished the book. it is hands down the best non-fiction book on the middle east i have read in years. i hope you have ordered it already. if you havent, you should.