He was a mega-rich son of an Aramco executive and we would drive around Riyadh in his stretch opalesque-painted Mercedes like Princes. He was so proud of his American friend and for me it was like hanging with royalty. He was very intelligent as he wasn’t inbred, I’m sure his Father had a foreign wife. A really great friend. I got to go to his wedding...wow THAT was epic. Interestingly, on that day HE KNEW it was Al-Qaeda but most Americans had never heard the term. They had infiltrated the Saudi military and were regularly purged from the ranks. I recall one day at the AWACS hangar three AQ trainees were arrested right in the shop...they were scary-angry fuqqers.

He was a mega-rich son of an Aramco executive and we would drive around Riyadh in his stretch opalesque-painted Mercedes like Princes. He was so proud of his American friend and for me it was like hanging with royalty. He was very intelligent as he wasn’t inbred, I’m sure his Father had a foreign wife. A really great friend. I got to go to his wedding...wow THAT was epic.