Peter Bergen on Saudi Arabia on National Review Online

Peter Bergen on Saudi Arabia on National Review Online: "In the sprawling desert city where Osama bin Laden was born almost half a century ago, last week the Saudis held their first international counterterrorism conference. A couple of days after the conference ended, Riyadh was the first city to vote in the only nationwide elections that have been held since the modern Saudi kingdom was founded three quarters of a century ago. "...both are indicative of a gradualist Saudi glasnost that may mark the beginnings of democratization...