Saudi Arabia coming apart?

I certainly hope so. "It couldn't happen to a nicer country..."
BBC reports 'American shot dead in Riyadh'

This is why the Arab countries - Saudi in particular - need an external enemy like Israel. They are now between a rock and a hard place. A majority of their happy peaceful constituency supports Bin Laden and his objectives. Which means that wether the people realize it or not, they are actually opposed to their benign ruler.
So the maniacs in charge have two choices.
One is to come down as hard as they'd like and be even more suppressive/oppressive (if that is at all possible), and kill and torture everyone remotely connected. Which of course produces more support for Al-Qaeda. Which in turn will inevitably lead to the fall of the oil leeches.
Or.
They try the diplomatic way, the nice way. Which leads to people needing to have THEIR say as well, which inevitably will make people conclude there's nothing to be gained by allowing the leeches to remain in power. The leeches get stepped on.

It's a win-win situation. Except that whoever takes over will be as bad as or worse than the scum that now rule. And that is not comforting, considering Saudi is practically a neighbour of Israel, and the country posesses the worlds finest military technology, like AWACS which are meticulously kept up-to-date as well. Saudi also was sold F-15's, still one of world's best air superiority fighters. Initially the Saudi's promised the US not to station these fighters at Tabuk (an airforce base near Israel). The pretext for the sale of the planes - both AWACS and F-15's - was the defense against possible agression from Iran, or Yemen (I swear, that's what they said!).
Well guess what? Entire squadrons of F-15's, combined with their air-controlling AWACS ARE now stationed at Tabuk. The US State department is not keeping the leeches to their promise, and the leeches for some odd reason feel threatened by Iran or Yemen no longer.

But anyway, when someone finally hangs the scum in Ryadh, someone less interested in simply staying in power and more interested in waging total war on anyone not submitting to Allah will gain control of these fine American-made war machines. And use them against Israel. And Israel will not be able to use one of its most potent weapons, which is the element of surprise (that is what AWACS do: Airborne Warning And Control System). AWACS can fly well within Saudi borders, protected by dozens of F-15's, and warn everyone else of any Israeli airborne activity. Nice eh? And if Israel would try to take out the AWACS, it would see the attack coming and be long gone, or defended so heavily the attack would be too costly.
On a side note: It was during Reagan's time in office that the AWACS were sold to Saudi. I liked Reagan as much as the next guy, but that time, he was well and truly fucked by the notoriously Arabist State Department. Reagan believed what the Arabs and their ass-sucking buddies at the State Department told him.

And now the Saudi's do what they want with the AWACS. Untill they're decapitated, or hanged. After which new and improved murderers get their hands on the guns. Guess who'll suffer first?