I never heard of this case until now. I looked up the Saudi in question - Abdulrahman Alharbi. I could be wrong, but if that guy is not the son of a man I knew (named Abdullah Al-harbi) in the very late 80s and early 90s when he was an exchange student, then I am blind. They look so similar that its stunning. The age of the younger man fits too because the older Al-harbi had a 16 year old fiance in SA in 1990/1991. She would have turned 18 one year before of in the year of the Alharbi’s birth. The Al-harbi I knew became very anti-American while studying here because we were “occupying” his country. When I pointed out we were there by invitation to thwart a possible invasion by Saddam Hussein, he just said we were there for Israel’s sake and that Israel was the 51st state. His father was a Lt. Col. in the SA army. His uncle a general.
Small world!