What is happening in Saudi Arabia or will happen there is the outcome of their own doing.  Of course we cann't predict the extent of perilous situation which may occur in Saudi Arabia in the coming months and years, but one thing is sure that the Royal family is in trouble and incapable of managing their kingdom.  These so-called royal families or dictators ought to learn a very valuable lesson from the history and the experience of others in the region.  Saddam Hussain of Iraq basically owned the country - nothing could move without his permission.  So was the case of Gadaffi in Libya.  But they did not care to educate their people, mistreated them and made them subservient to the regimes.  Another live example is Pakistan.  The government in the then West Pakistan did not treat the Bengalis in the then East Pakistan humanely, and that ill-treatment led to the creation of a separate country as Bangladesh.  The Saudi Royal family is rich but that richness is not spread for the welfare of inhabitants of that regime.  They are kept illiterate ( except the Royal family members), brainwashed and turned them yes-men for the regime.  Article also referred that the Royal family has to make a wise and timely decision to change the existing turmoil in the country.  Knowing the mentality of the Royal family - tilting towards their own concocted version of Islamic faith of Wahhabism - it is too late to change their religious belief.  Most of the chaos which the whole world is experiencing is the outcome of overt and covert support of petro-dollars flowing from the Saudi government.  Mismanagement of the Haj operation and accident at the construction site at the Mecca are just what Allah is hinting the bad times lingering on the Royal family.  However, at the end of the day, whatever is going to happen to the Saudi Royal family is going to happen.  The important point to ponder upon is who will or is capable of replacing the Saudi Regime.  When one looks around in the Middle East, one will have a tough time to find any one who will be kind, moderate and peace loving to control and manage a deteriorating situation in the Saudi Arabia.  Unless the civilized world finds some one who is willing to extend an olive branch to all Muslim and non-Muslim sects - Sunis, Shias and other minorities- to let them participate in the decision making, willing to educate them properly and respect freedom of speech and practicing their own religion, the situation will not improve, and for that matter, this applies to all Middle East.