Robert Lacey

In fighting its war, the Ministry of the Interior has resorted to a novel tactic__arriage. No Saudi official will admit on the record that the Kingdom__ terrorist problem might boil down to sexual frustration, but if a social system bans hot-blooded young men from contact with the opposite sex in their most hot-blooded years, perhaps it is hardly surprising that some of them channel this frustration into violence. One cornerstone of the extremist rehab program is to get the __eneficiaries,_ as they are called, settled down with a wife as soon as possible. The Ministry of the Interior pays each unmarried beneficiary 60,000 riyals (some $18,000), the going rate for a dowry, or bride price. The family arranges a marriage, and whenever he can, Prince Mohammed turns up for the wedding.When Khaled Al-Hubayshi was released from Al-Haier prison early in 2007, he wasted no time finding himself a bride at government expense.

It's the love you had that matters, isn't it, not the pain.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef