"The Saudis are ready to pay anybody willing to stop Al Maliki ....."

WorldTribune, here

"... Officials said the intelligence community has assessed that Riyad was financing the current Al Qaida offensive in Iraq, particularly in the provinces of Anbar, Baghdad, Diyala and Nineveh. They said Saudi Arabia has recruited other Gulf Cooperation Council states to pour money to Sunni tribes to resist the Shi'ite-dominated Al Maliki government.....

Despite U.S. appeals, Saudi Arabia has refused to return its ambassador to Iraq. Officials said Riyad has instead chosen to embroil Iran in an insurgency war similar to that waged by Taliban against Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s. "The Saudis are ready to pay anybody willing to stop Al Maliki, whom they believe is a tool of Teheran," an official said..."