Saudi, Kuwaiti groups helped create Islamist monster in Iraq they can't control

[The Magistrate]

6. That Place Has Been Flashing Green On The Vik-O-Meter For A Long Time, Sir

Western powers were a bit chary of the consequences of forcing into Mecca ( though one doubts the old Romans would have flinched from it ), but co-religionists have no need of such scruple. Iran's mullahs made a bit of a stab at it shortly after Khomeini took over. I have no doubt the I.S.I.L. people regard Arabia's current rulers as hopelessly corrupt and unworthy guardians of the holy places.

Worth note that the House of Saud owes its present prominence to a fundamentalist rising ( with the English for a time giving subsidies to both the Hashemites at Mecca and I'bn Saud and his Ikwah ): the present borders of Iraq and Jordan with Saudi Arabia are pretty much where the RAF stopped I'bn Saud driving north in 1922 or thereabouts....