Bing! NYTimes Friedman: One could easily do a revisionist history of 9/11 and show how it was simply the opening salvo in an attempted coup within Saudi Arabia — with the attack on America meant only as a bank shot to undermine one of the main supports of the Saudi ruling family. Last week's Riyadh bombing was just the latest episode in this civil war, involving hard-core Islamists out to overthrow the moderate/Westernized/indulgent Saudi elite. NOTE: this begs the question: did the US invasion of Iraq improve the chances of a coup in Saudi Arabia? [John Robb's Weblog]