sentences:  Italy, an Axis power, bombed a CASOC oil installation in Dhahran crippling Saudi Arabia's oil production.This attack left Bin Saud scrambling for to find an external power that would protect the country, fearing further attacks that would most likely cease the country's oil production and the flow of pilgrims coming into Makkah to perform Hajj, the base of the Saudi power and economy at that time (Wafa, 2005).However, as World War II progressed, the United States began to believe that Saudi oil was of strategic importance.