LONDON – “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma,” Winston Churchill told his listeners in a radio broadcast in October 1939.
Much the same can be said about Saudi Arabia — one of the most compulsively secretive countries in the world at the start of the 21st century.
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