NBC Military Analyst Echoes Wihbey 

On September 27, the Daily Telegraph of London printed IASPS Senior Strategic Fellow Paul Michael Wihbey’s analysis of Osama bin Laden’s designs on toppling the regime of the Saudi royal family. While he was writing it, the theory may have seemed somewhat unconventional to some; yet within a few days, Wihbey’s strategic assessment was being validated by credible Washington authorities into conventional wisdom.

On Thursday October 4, on the national broadcast of the "Geraldo Rivera Show", NBC Military Analyst Col. Kenneth Allard told NBC interviewer Geraldo Rivera that bin Laden “probably has it in mind that he would love to return to Saudi Arabia, in very much the same way that the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran.” He went on to characterize Saudi Arabia as “kind of the soft underbelly of U.S. strategy in the region, ” a virtual quote from Wihbey’s Daily Telegraph essay.

IASPS was gratified to hear Wihbey's insights echoed by the well-respected NBC analyst. Click here to read the rest of the Wihbey piece. The scenario it describes seems to be unfolding just as Wihbey outlined, which could place a quarter of the planet’s proven oil reserves under bin Laden’s de facto control.

The point: keep reading IASPS analyses to see what everybody else will be saying next week.

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