Politics: Death, Inc.

The target of the Riyadh bombings was Northrup Grumman subsidiary Vinnell Corporation. A Los Angeles Times commentary piece by Bill Hartung runs down the story on this shadowy entity and its questionable role as a proxy for proper U.S. foreign policy. Vinnell had 5,000 men on the ground in what one Pentagon source described as, "our own little mercenary army in Vietnam." Since 1975, Vinnell has been taking millions from the House of Saud to train, arm and support the royal family's own internal defense force in Saudi Arabia. This attack wasn't just on Americans, but on Americans who prop up the anemic, cancerous Saudi Royal Family. It's clear that Saudi Arabia can't be left to a rising fundamentalist Islam tide, the ongoing abuse of the nation and its resources by the King and his descendants only adds fuel to the fundamentalist fire.

So does Vinnell's U.S. owned and operated mercenary training and killing force. The bombers were executing an unsavory and illegal foreign policy by other means. Unfortunately, this is an example they learned from us.