I ALREADY MENTIONED THE NEWSWEEK STORY ON THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT CONNECTION TO THE 9/11 HIJACKERS but here’s a small item from it that hasn’t gotten as much attention as it deserves:

A federal law-enforcement source told NEWSWEEK that Basnan—who was recently convicted of visa fraud and is awaiting deportation—was a known “Al Qaeda sympathizer” who “celebrated the heroes of September 11” at a party after the attacks and openly talked about “what a wonderful, glorious day it had been.”

And this is a guy getting money from the Saudi royal family, one with a number of connections that suggest he’s some sort of an operative. This tells us all we need to know about the Saudis’ attitude. And, as far as I’m concerned, there’s plenty of justification for our next attack to land on Saudi Arabia instead of (or as well as) Iraq.

UPDATE: Nick Schulz emails that this story has even gotten Mark Kleiman sounding bellicose:

It now appears that the Saudi government was significantly complicit in bombing our capital and our biggest city, killing 3000 Americans in the process. Are we going to take it lying down?

I hope not.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Here’s a story in The New Republic, too. I think this has legs.