The slimiest of the Saudi shills, Adel al-Jubeir, was rapidly dispatched to the US for some frantic damage control, following reports that the Royal Family was opening dialog with Al Qaeda to renew their protection payoffs.

Of course, the Saudis deny it.

Today al-Jubeir said the Riyadh bombing may have been a mistake; the terrorists may have thought they were killing infidels.

Asked about the theory that the bombers made a mistake, Jubeir said: “That may very well be the case. The compound used to house employees from Boeing Corporation up until about five years ago. These employees hailed from many different countries including Europe and the United States and Arab countries.”

Al-Jubeir also blamed Al Qaeda on the Egyptians:

Saudi Arabia has been a significant source of recruits for al Qaeda, providing 15 of the 19 hijackers who attacked the United States and killed some 3,000 people in September 2001.

But Jubeir said: “When you look at the operational management of al Qaeda, it all emanates from the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic Jihad in Egypt. You can see it.”

And he took a few moments from his busy schedule of justifying and shifting blame to attack Ariel Sharon and equate the Israelis with Hamas and Islamic Jihad:

“We hope that trend will continue and will put some rationality and some sanity into the actions of the Israeli prime minister and his government, as well as the actions of Hamas and Islamic Jihad with regard to suicide bombings,” he added.

(Of course, the Saudis are one of the primary sources of Hamas’ funding, but no one at the press conference bothered to ask al-Jubeir about that.)

Meanwhile, back in the land of the oil parasites, the imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca is dropping broad hints that you know who was responsible: Makkah Imam Equates Riyadh Bombing With Israeli Terror.

Dr. Saleh Bin Humaid, the imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah and chairman of the Shoura Council, compared the actions of the suspected Al-Qaeda bombers who carried out the attack last week to Israeli terror in Palestinian territories.

In his Friday sermon to over one million faithful who thronged the large mosque complex, the imam said the terrorists who bombed the Riyadh compound were seeking to sow strife among Muslims.

“Are the terrorism of Israel and the terrorism of those (militants) coordinated?” Dr. Humaid asked. “Is the purpose to kill more Arabs and Muslims and create more violence and instability?”

“It is inevitable that we should draw comparisons between the women and children who are being killed in Palestine and the homes that are being razed and the women and children who were killed in Riyadh while they were in their homes,” the imam said.