More likely there's a new deal in the works, IMO, assuming it hasn't been finalized already.
Saudi Arabia is quieter again after a tumultuous summer of unprecedented violence — gun battles, kidnappings, killings and beheading of foreigners — that ripped through this usually tranquil desert kingdom. Most Saudis one meets these days seem confident the worst is now behind them. "It is 95 percent game-over for the terrorists," says Waleed Abalkhail, president of SISCOM, a Saudi E-commerce firm. Pro-al Qaeda insurgents' hoped their summer rampage would shake the establishment and royal family.
That would be Muqrin's little campaign that culminated in his eventual demise...
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