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by Robert Baer (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Crown Publishers; 1 edition (Jul 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1400050219
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400050215
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 285,905 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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According to Robert Baer, the centre of the global economy is a "kingdom built on thievery, one that nurtures terrorism, destroys any possibility of a middle class based on property rights, and promotes slavery and prostitution". This kingdom also sits on one quarter of the world's oil reserves, thus ensuring that it receives the full support and protection of the US government. Sleeping With the Devil details the hypocritical and corrupt relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia and the potentially calamitous economic consequences of maintaining this Faustian bargain.

As Baer makes clear, the US has been aware of problems within the bitterly divided Al Sa'ud family for years, but has ignored the facts in order to keep lucrative business deals afloat. (The amount of money the royal family spends to influence powerful American politicians and lobbyists is staggering.) Particularly damning are his details regarding Saudi Arabia's support of militant Islamic groups, including al Qaeda. The ruling family funnels millions of dollars to such groups in order to dissuade them from overthrowing the monarchy--a protection scheme that is shaky at best, given the hatred most citizens feel for the ruling family. To prevent economic disaster that could come from either a local uprising or an interruption in the flow of oil due to terrorism, Baer raises the possibility of the US seizing the Saudi oil fields and forcing a regime change on its own terms: "An invasion and a revolution might be the only things that can save the industrial West from a prolonged, wrenching depression", he warns.

Baer spent 21 years with the CIA, much of it in the Middle East, so he is an informed guide to this complex subject. His alarming book deserves to be read for raising many important and troubling questions. --Shawn Carkonen, Amazon.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping, chilling and insightful - yet another master narrative from the former CIA operative!, 22 Sep 2008
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Akin to Robert Baer's other bestselling work See No Evil, this book is equally insightful and gripping. The subject matter for this work of his, is the complicated, often worrying relationship between successive U.S. administrations, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and its ruling family the house of Al Sa'ud.

Being a former CIA operative who's fluent in Arabic (among other languages), Baer drew on his years of experience having worked in the region, to chart his country's unhealthy appetite for easy access to perceptively cheap Saudi oil. He poignantly reminds us that 15 of the 19 hijackers who perpetrated the 9/11 atrocities where Saudi Nationals. Developing the narrative, articulating thoughts, penning down facts and presenting personal experience from his field operations, the author skilfully explains the culture of bribery that exists in the Al Sa'ud family, its woeful human rights record, its direct or indirect financial support of Islamic fundamentalist groups and sponsorship of Wahhabis - the powerful Islamic sect which is so popular in Saudi Arabia, and with extremists groups such as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

According to Baer, U.S. addiction to Saudi oil and the ever increasing need for energy security, has made the world's only remaining super-power to turn a blind eye to all of this over the years. That's despite being well aware of the fact that its "Petrodollars" may ultimately find their way to those preaching a hatred of America and harbouring plans to attack its citizens and interests.

This book is just as balanced as See No Evil, in the aspect that Baer is not looking to score political points or castigate either side of the American political divide. In that, he believes that politicians on both sides are to blame for sticking their hands in the "Saudi cookie jar."

The author put his life on the line for his country, and continues to fight on now with a pen instead of a rifle by making a series of ground breaking revelations. I was gripped by this book. It demands to be read and the author needs to be heard, if we are ever to appreciate the magnitude of how serious the issue of energy security is, when pitted against the backdrop of the mess in the Middle East in general and Saudi Arabia in particular.
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5.0 out of 5 stars What price in lives for washington to buy back its soul?, 14 Jun 2004
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a must read for anyone interested in current geopolitics, I was not aware of the corruption of the Saudi Regime and the resulting instability of the biggest oil supplier to the world. Read it and become afraid of what might be ahead for the world....
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