it s quite odd for assad how do you to leave and then stay where as he had scheduled many meetings with the world bank and other meetings official meetings then to the following day on the other hand he brought his family along we don t really know what s happening at the moment but i find it hard to imagine that the saudis would just like detain him against his will spontaneously unless there s other things just the politics involved right and of course we have to remind our viewers he s a dual citizen yes saudi and lebanese citizenship business interests in saudi arabia a big construction company which went sour this year went bankrupt and he needs to be bailed out and maybe he s expecting for the saudis to bail him out and he needs to give something in exchange all right now extraordinary sequence of events unfolding in saudi and in the region help us understand why crown prince martin samana made a series of shock moves for size sleep at this time was he trying to fend off somethin