Though Saudi Arabia sits on one of the richest oil deposits in the world, it also produced fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. In this immensely important book, journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a land straddling the worlds of medievalism and modernity. Moving from the bloody seizure of Mecca's Grand Mosque in 1979, through the Persian Gulf War, to the delicate U.S.-Saudi relations in a post 9/11 world, Inside the Kingdom brings recent history to vivid life and offers a powerful story of a country learning how not to be at war with itself.

Table of Contents 

Map: Saudi Arabia and Its Neighbors

Preface: Welcome to the Kingdom

Family Tree: Rulers of the Kingdom

Note on the Islamic Calendar

Pt. 1 Kingdom of God

1 Angry Face 3

2 The Brothers 14

3 Siege 24

4 No Sunni, No Shia 37

5 Vox Populi, Vox Dei 46

6 Salafi Soccer 54

7 Jihad in Afghanistan 62

8 Special Relationship 68

9 Dawn Visitors 78

10 Stars in the Heavens 86

11 Into Exile 97

12 The Dove and the East Wind 105

13 Vacationing Jihadi 114

Pt. 2 Kingdom at War

14 Desert Storm 127

15 Battle for Al-Khafji 141

16 Awakening 148

17 Stopping the Sins 157

18 In from the Cold 167

19 Change of Heart 174

20 Enter the Crown Prince 180

21 The Students 193

22 Infinite Reach 204

23 New Century 214

Pt. 3 Al-Qaeda Comes Home

24 Fifteen Flying Saudis 225

25 Fire 237

26 Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula 244

27 Prodigal Sons 253

28 King Abdullah 264

29 Girls of Saudi 274

30 Illegitimate Occupation 284

31 End of the Affair 292

32 Condition of the People 303

Epilogue 316

Time Line 333

Glossary of Names and Arabic Terms 335

Notes 343

Suggested Reading 377

Acknowledgments 381

General Index 389

House of Saud Index 401

Photographic Sources 403

448 stron, język angielski, ilustrowana.

Stan: nieczytana, przetarte brzegi, znak pisakiem na brzegu.

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