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“Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that

spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and

deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that

can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we

want the global economy to balance on?”

In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No Evil,

former CIA operative Robert Baer exposed how Washington politics

drastically compromised the CIA’s efforts to fight global

terrorism. Now in his powerful new book, Sleeping with the Devil,

Baer turns his attention to Saudi Arabia, revealing how our

government’s cynical relationship with our Middle Eastern ally and

America’ s dependence on Saudi oil make us increasingly vulnerable

to economic disaster and put us at risk for further acts of

terrorism.

For decades, the United States and Saudi Arabia have been locked in

a “harmony of interests.” America counted on the Saudis for cheap

oil, political stability in the Middle East, and lucrative business

relationships for the United States, while providing a voracious

market for the kingdom’ s vast oil reserves. With money and oil

flowing freely between Washington and Riyadh, the United States has

felt secure in its relationship with the Saudis and the ruling Al

Sa’ud family. But the rot at the core of our “friendship” with the

Saudis was dramatically revealed when it became apparent that

fifteen of the nineteen September 11 hijackers proved to be Saudi

citizens.

In Sleeping with the Devil, Baer documents with chilling

clarity how our addiction to cheap oil and Saudi petrodollars

caused us to turn a blind eye to the Al Sa’ud’s culture of bribery,

its abysmal human rights record, and its financial support of

fundamentalist Islamic groups that have been directly linked to

international acts of terror, including those against the United

States. Drawing on his experience as a field operative who was on

the ground in the Middle East for much of his twenty years with the

agency, as well as the large network of sources he has cultivated

in the region and in the U.S. intelligence community, Baer vividly

portrays our decades-old relationship with the increasingly

dysfunctional and corrupt Al Sa’ud family, the fierce anti-Western

sentiment that is sweeping the kingdom, and the desperate link

between the two. In hopes of saving its own neck, the royal family

has been shoveling money as fast as it can to mosque schools that

preach hatred of America and to militant fundamentalist groups—an

end game just waiting to play out.

Baer not only reveals the outrageous excesses of a Saudi royal

family completely out of touch with the people of its kingdom, he

also takes readers on a highly personal search for the deeper roots

of modern terrorism, a journey that returns time again and again to

Saudi Arabia: to the Wahhabis, the powerful Islamic sect that rules

the Saudi street; to the Taliban and al Qaeda, both of which Saudi

Arabia helped to underwrite; and to the Muslim Brotherhood, one of

the most active and effective terrorist groups in existence, which

the Al Sa’ud have sheltered and funded. The money and arms that we

send to Saudi Arabia are, in effect, being used to cut our own

throat, Baer writes, but America might have only itself to blame.

So long as we continue to encourage the highly volatile Saudi state

to bank our oil under its sand—and so long as we continue to grab

at the Al Sa’ud’s money—we are laying the groundwork for a

potential global economic catastrophe.

From the Hardcover edition.

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　　ROBERT BAER was a case officer in the Directorate of

Operations for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1976 to 1997.

His overseas assignments included stints in locations such as

Northern Iraq, Dushanbe, Rabat, Paris, Beirut, Khartoum, New Delhi,

and elsewhere, handling agents that infiltrated Hizballah, PFLP-GC,

PSF, Libyan intelligence, Fatah-Hawari, and al Qaeda. Fluent in

Arabic, Farsi, French, and German, he divides his time between

Washington, D.C., and France.

　　From the Hardcover edition.

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