I for one do not agree with what he did. For one it must be causing additional stress to his (great) mom, who is not in a state of health that can easily handle the stress of not knowing what was to become of her son. Secondly coup de tats almost always ends up with a result that was far worse than what was there before. Just ask the CIA and the coup 'experiments' they tried during the Cold War. IT is a rare thing for a coup to work well in the mid to long term. Now imagine the messes that would be created by private coup attempts! There is nothing good in what this guy did.
Just because a nation 'has oil' and a 'potential Saddam' doesn't mean private citizens should be bankrolling ill-thought coup de tat attempts (so ill thought that they could even commence the coup before getting caught).