Silicon Valley is awash with Saudi Arabian money
The big question for me is: why now?<p>You can have your own list of equivalent or worse actions by several allies.<p>So what triggered the recent reaction?<p>The Washington Post suggests that it’s because it humanized the action. A lone journalist — a writer whom we may have read — attacked in a brutal fashion.<p>But what no one mentions is that his uncle was a famous billionaire and his cousin was Dodi al Fayed.<p>Surely he has powerful family members who are outraged and connected.<p>The only problem with this theory is that the same might have been said of Bin Talal and nobody blinked at his arrest.